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Original 13 Colonies
The US gained control of this land because we won the reveloutionary war and British signed the treaty of paris. The decloration of independence was to express was to express three main ideas. The unalienable rights, that incluedes life, liberty, and pursuite of happiness. -
Northwest Territory
Lands including present day Illinios, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. It was organized bythe Northwest Ordinance of 1787. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief of the americans that the united states would expand across the continent to the pacific ocean without anyone stopping them. -
Louisiana Purchase
Purchase of French land between the the mississippi river and the rocky mountians that nearly doubled the size of the united states. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
An agreement in which Spain gave up all of flordia to the united states. -
Texas Annexation
The united states took control of this land because they were offering large land grants. Mexico limited american imigration . -
Oregon Territory
Britian originally shared control of the region. The present day states are Washington, Oregon, And parts od Idaho. -
Mexican Cession
Land Mexico gave to the united states after the mexican war through the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo. -
Gadsden Purchace
U.S purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present day Arizona and New Mexico.
