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westward expansion

  • louisiana purchase

    louisiana purchase
    Jefferson bought the land from the French, it doubled the size of the United States.
  • british cession

    british cession
    It established the boundry between the United States and Canada.
  • Adam-Oins

    Adam-Oins
    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 Red River.
  • mexican cession

    mexican cession
    The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
  • Oregon Territory

    Oregon Territory
    The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.
  • Gadsten Purchase

    Gadsten Purchase
    the purchase was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
  • Texas Annexation

    Texas Annexation
    the annexation of Texas in 1845, the negotiation of the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain in 1846, and the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, which ended with the signing and ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848.