Manifest Destiny

The US paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land needed to build a southern transcontinental railroad

• Louisiana Purchase

• Adams- Onis Treaty

• Gadsden Purchase

• Convention of 1818

It's the belief that the US was destined to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

British recognized the sovereignty and independence of the US and gave the land from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi RIver.

• Treaty of Paris of 1783

• Treaty of Paris 1763

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Convention of 1818

The US attempted to buy this land but resulted in buying the entire Louisiana Territory.

• Oregon

• Florida

• New Orleans

• Maine

Both of these set the boundary between the US and British North America at the 49th Parallel.

• Convention of 1818 and Oregon Treaty

• Treaty of Paris 1783

  and Oregon Treaty

• Webster Ashburton Treaty

  and the Convention of 1818

• Gadsden Purchase and the Webster Ashburton Treaty

In 1845, this state joined the US as the 28th state.

This was an agreement between the US and Great Britain that set the boundary of Maine and Lake Superior.

• Treaty of Paris of 1783

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Webster Ashburton Treaty

• Oregan Treaty

This gave the US Spanish Florida and set the boundary between the US and New Spain.

• Treaty of Paris

• Gadsden Purchase

• Treaty of of Guadalupe

• Adams-Onis Treaty

After this war, Mexico ceded the Southwest to the United States.

• American Revolution

• Spanish American War

• Mexican-American War

• War of 1812

The US expanded west by

• Purchasing land

• Treaties

• Wars

• All of the above