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Proclamation of 1763-
The British called for a stop of westward expansion beyond the Appalachians Mountains for the Colonist. -
Northwest Territory
Treaty of Paris (1783)- Gained Ohio River Valley, Land Ordinance (1785)- Broke up land into acres to back debt, education, and cost of moving out west, Northwest Ordinance (1787)- Rules of becoming a state, prohibits slavery -
Louisiana Purchase
We doubled the size of the 13 states and gained New Orleans and the Mississippi River. -
Red River Basin
Treaty signed with Britian at the 1818 Conention. The U.S.will share the Oregon territory, we ganied the the states Minnesota and North Dakota Signed treaty with Britain 1818 Convention
- U.S. and Britain will share Oregon Territory
- Gained states; Minnesota and North Dakot -
West & East Florida
Florida was highly populated by Seminole Indians who were causing much trouble in the American Territory. Andrew Jackson cleared all of the Seminole settlements out of Florida by hanging two Indian Chiefs and capturing two Spanish forts. In 1819, John Quincy Adams bargained with Spain to cede all of Florida for $5 million. -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
This treaty settled the northwest boundary dispute, it gave America the Arstook Valley, along with several waterways. It also settled the US-Canadian border dispute. -
Texas Annexation
The rules Texas had to go by inorder to become a state. Texas would have to keep both public lands and public debt. It had the Power to divide four other states if in the future texas wanted to do so. Texas also had to deliver all military, postal, and customs facilities and authority to the U.S. government. -
Oregon Territory
Half a million square miles west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, between northern boundary of California and the Southern tip of Alaska. -
Mexican Cession
peace treaty was signed with Mexico on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe-Hidalgo. (treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo) Mexico acknowledged the annexation of Texas (with the Rio Grande as its border), gave the US New Mexico and California. In return, the United States paid $15,000,000 for the Mexican Cession, and assumed up to $3,250,000 of the disputed claims -
Gadsden Purchase
James Gadsden payed Santa Anna $10,000,000 for territory south of the Gila River and which is in southwestern New Mexico and southern Arizona. -
Alaska
Russia offers to sell Alaska for $7.2 Million and 600,000 square miles. -
Hawaii-1898
January 1893, planters in Hawaii wanted to get rid of the Queen. They called the U.S. armed forces for help. Marines came onto the island and the American minister on the island raised the American flag. the Queen gave up and Hawaii was now part of America. President Cleveland that what happened in Hawaii was shameful. But the American public sentiment favored the joining of Hawaii, and so it became part of America. -
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Western Migration and Expansion
The British called for a stop of westward expansion beyond the Appalachians Mountains for the Colonist.
