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Proclamation of 1763
The British made the Proclamation of 1763 to prevent the colonists from moving west past the Appalachian Mountains. They did this so it would be easier to prevent rebellions and to make it easier to collect taxes. -
Northwest Teritorry
The Northwest territory was split up and sold in the Land Ordinance of 1785. The land was suposed to be sold to private buyers to make money for the government. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 created government and state outlines based on populations in the territories and prohibited slavery. -
Louisiana Purchase
In 1803 the U.S Government agreed to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana territory which Napoleon used to stop a slave rebellion in Haiti. The 50,000 people living their were granted American citizenship. New England was not a fan of expansion because it gave more power in government to farming states. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the country and gave access to the Mississippi River. -
Red River Basin
In 1818 Britain and America signed a treaty that clarified the borders of the Oregon Territory. The land the United States received in the treaty, was known as the Red River Basin and would later become part of Minnesota and North Dakota. -
East & West Florida
United States claimed that part of West Florida that had been part of Louisiana before 1763 which would make it U.S property after the Louisiana Purchase. In 1819, the Adams-Onís Treaty between U.S. Spanish was signed in wich Spain renounced its claims to West Florida and also ceded East Florida to the United States -
Webster- Ashburton Treaty
The Treaty resolved a dispute over the location of the Maine–New Brunswick borders between the U.S and Canada -
Texas Annexation
Santa Anna the mexican president was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto and forced to sign a treaty recognizing Texas as an independent republic. Expansionists feared that an independent Texas would blunt America’s march into the southwest. After, the state convention agreed on the annexation on the Fourth of July, Texas was formally admitted to the Union in December 1845. -
Mexican Cessation
The Mexican Cession of 1848 is the name for the region that was ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. the territory later became the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona -
Oregon Territory
The United States and Britain agreed to the "joint occupation" of Oregon in 1818. August 14, 1848, Congress created the Oregon Territory, an area that includes what is today Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and western Montana. -
Gadsden Purchase
The region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty in1853. The purchase added a large area to the United States. -
Alaska
In 1867 the U.S purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. dDiscoveries of gold were made there in the 1880s and 1890s. On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower announced Alaska's entrance into the Union as the 49th state -
Hawaii
The U.S.built a naval base in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii officially became the fiftieth state on August 21, 1959.
