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Lousiana Purchase
The acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,144,000 square kilometers or 529,920,000 acres) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. Cite- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase -
British Cession
a treaty signed in 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom that resolved standing boundary issues between the two nations, and allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country, known to the British and in Canadian history as the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company, and including the southern portion of its sister district New Caledonia. Cite- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_1818 -
Adams-Onis
The principal elements in the treaty were the acquisition of Florida by the United States and the establishment of a boundary line between Spanish territory and the United States. Cite-http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AD004.html -
Texas Annexation
Texas' incorporation into the United States of America of the Republic of Texas, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state. Cite- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_annexation -
Mexican Cession
The treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. state, and ceded a large chunk of land; about half the area that belonged to the Mexican republic ; to the United States for the cost of $15 million. Cite- www.learner.org/interactives/.../states_mexican.html -
Oregon Territory
An area that includes what is today Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and western Montana. Cite- www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/.../jb_reform_oregon_1.html -
Gadsen Purchase
A 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden. Cite-http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nNrN2jb1eZ4J:https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/gadsden-purchase+gadsden+purchase&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
