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Louisiana Purchase
Was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Lewis and Clark
They travelled by river and by land from St. louis, Missouri, to the oregon coast and back again. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Lewis to lead an expedition to explore the newly-bought Louisiana Territory in order to further commerce. -
Adams Onis
Known as the Transcontinental treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida the the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
Remember the Alamo
A battle cry in the Texas' struggle for independence from Mexican war. It recalled the desperate fight of the Texan defenders in the Alamo, a besieged fort, where they died to the last man. -
Webster Ashburton
Treaty was signed August 8,1842, was a treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies. Signed under John Tyler's presidency, it resolved the Aroostock war, a nonviolent dispute over the location of the Maine New Brunswick border. -
Texas Annexation
The annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American war, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1845-1848. During his tenure, U.S. President James K.Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. -
Winfield Scott
Scott was a United States Army general and unsuccessful President candidate of the whig party in 1852 -
President Polk
James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, NC. He later lived in and represnted Tennesse. -
War with Mexico
It is also called the Mexican war, Spanish Guerra de 1847 or Guerra de Estados Unidos a Mexico, war between the United smStates and Mexico stremming from the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande -
Treaty of Guadalupe
Officially entitled the treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the Peace treaty signed on Feb.2,1848, in the vila de Guadalupe Hidalgo bewteen the United States and Mexico the ended the Mexican American War. -
Zachary Taylor
Taylor was the 12th President of the United States serving from March 1849 Until his death in July 1850.Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670 sqaure mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on Dec. 30,1853, by James Gadsden, American ambassador to mexico at that time. -
Oregon Territory
In 1846, the oregon boundary dispute between the U.S and Britain was settled with the signing of the Oreegon Treaty. The British gained sole possesion of the land nortg of the 49th parallel and all of Vancouver Island, with the United States receiving the territory south of that line.