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Westward Expansion
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Louisana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson made the purchase from France for 15 million dollars it doubled the United States in territory size -
Brittish Cession
It established the boundary between U.S. and Canadian territories at the 49th parallel no money was used. -
Adams-Onis
The treaty was named for John Quincy Adams of the United States and Louis de Onís of Spain and renounced any claim of the United States to Texas. It fixed the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase as beginning at the mouth of the Sabine River and running along its south and west bank to the thirty-second parallel and thence directly north to the Río Rojo (Red River). -
Texas Annexation
It gave us most of the area of texas that we know today. We annexed it from Mexico. -
Orgeon Terriotory
On August 14, 1848, Congress passed the Act to Establish the Territorial Government of Oregon, which created what was officially the Territory of Oregon.[8] The Territory of Oregon originally encompassed all of the present-day states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as those parts of present day Montana and Wyoming west of the Continental Divide. It extended from the 42nd parallel north (the boundary of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819), in the south to the 49th parallel. -
Mexico Cession
The treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. state, and ceded a large chunk of land — about half the area that belonged to the Mexican republic — to the United States for the cost of $15 million. The Mexican Cession included land that would later become California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. -
Gadsden Purchase
We paid to Mexico to $10 million and purchased 29,670 square miles of land, and also removed any mention of Native American attacks and private claims.
