• Purchased in 1803
• Jefferson bought from Napolean
• Agreeed to pay $15 million instead of their original $10 milliom offer
• Doubled the size of the United States with just one treaty! 

From Great Britain- War of 1812

(Red River Basin)

• Treaty of Ghent
• Ceded by Britain in 1818
• Andrew Jackson wins the battle of New Orleans
• America declares war against Britain

• France claimed and explored first
• Marquet & Joliet and LaSalle explored here
• French & Indian War (1754-1763)
• Treaty of Paris of 1783

Spanish Cession

(Florida)

• Spain ceded in 1819
• Monroe Doctrine
• Spanish officials protecetd slaves

• Annexed in 1845
• William B. Travis commanded Texan American Army
• On February 23, 1836, Mexican troops began the Alamo
• Captured Santa Anna, forcing him to give them their freedom
• Moses & Steve Austin

• Four countires claimed it; USA, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia
• Spain and Russia dropped out; USA and Britain agreed to occupy jointly
• Britain signed a treaty granting the USA Oregon in 1846

• Mexico rejected the $30 million offer
• War broke out in April 1846
• President Polk attacked many Mexican fronts at once
• Ceded in 1848Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• U.S. paid Mexico $10 million
• Purchased in 1853
• Manifest destiny finally fulfilled
• After 1848, many Americans flocked to the SW
• Finish Railroad
• James Gadsden

• Seward's icebox/folly
• Purcased for $7.2 million in 1867
• NOT manifest destiny, even more...

• Annexed in 1898
• Captain James Cook
• 1830s-40s- Christian Missionaries (German)
• 50s- US Missionaries
• 80s- Planters want power
• Forced Constitution on the king
• Queen Lil forced to surrender in 1898

• Acquired as result of war
• Cubans rebelling against Spain, we are sympathetic/concerned
• US owned plantations in Cuba worth millions
• They blow up our ship
• Treaty of Paris 

• Teddy Roosevelt
• $10 mill plus $250 grand a year
• We helped Panama in the war and they let us build the canal

• Acquired in 1818

• Agrees to demilitarize th Great Lakes