American Expansion

Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny is the idea that it was the United States’s undeniable destiny to spread from ocean to ocean and everywhere in between In the 19 th Century, Manifest Destiny would be realized – the US would expand from east of the Mississippi to a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans

Louisiana Purchase (1803) Purchased from: Napoleon (France) Purchased by: Thomas Jefferson Price: $15 million The US approached France about buying New Orleans. Napoleon wanted out of North America and offered to sell all of the Louisiana Territory to US.

Convention of 1818 and the Division of the Oregon Country Treaty between the US and Britain that gave both rights to the Oregon Country An 1846 treaty later treaty will divide the land at the 49 th parallel US will get area that is now the states of Washington and Oregon British get the land that is now the Canadian province of British Columbia Convention of 1818 Division of the Oregon Country, 1846

Adams Onis Treaty (1819) Treaty between US and Spain US got Florida Spain got some land in the SW part of US, including part of present day Texas

Indian Removal Act (1830) Acquired from: the Five Civilized Tribes of the SE United States Price: n/a Gave the President the authority to forcibly remove the Native Americans to Oklahoma This was done despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled in the Cherokees favor in Worcester v. Georgia

Indian Relocation

Trail of Tears

Annexation of Texas (1845) Acquired from: Independent Texas voted to be annexed by the US after gaining their independence from Mexico in 1836 Price: n/a Controversy: Would add another slave state to the Union Santa Anna, the leader of Mexico, threatened war if Texas was annexed

War with Mexico Mexico threatened war - President Polk sent an ambassador to Mexico with the offer of $30 million to buy Texas and California Mexican officials refused to even see the ambassador May 13, 1846 – the Mexican War begins – troops being led by General Zachary Taylor US wins

Lands gained by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican American war, Mexico gave up its claim to Texas, New Mexico, and California for $15 million

Gadsden Purchase (1853) 5 years later, Mexico sold southern New Mexico and Arizona to the U.S. for $10 million

US Territorial Acquisitions