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US History concept chart major concepts & themes across US History: Difference between revisions
US History concept chart major concepts & themes across US History (view source)
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=== "frontier" western expansion === | === "frontier" western expansion === | ||
* >>details | * >>details | ||
=== List of major territorial acquisitions & treaties === | |||
* 1818 '''Treaty of 1818''' | |||
** Britain ceded land northwest of the Northwest Territory (western modern MN and north & east ND) | |||
** US ceded lands north of the 49th parallel above modern MT | |||
** established the 49th parallel as the border of US and Canada | |||
* 1842 '''Webster–Ashburton Treaty''' | |||
** settled border disputes along modern US-Canadian border, including in the modern states of ME, MN, MT, ID & WA (reaffirming the 49th parallel) | |||
* 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |||
* 1853 '''Gadsden Purchase''' | |||
** negotiated after the Mexican-American war to purchase Mexican territory in the south of modern AZ and southwest area of NM | |||
** includes modern AZ cities of Yuma & Tucson | |||
** cost was $10 million and motive for Mexico to sell it was likely to get the money before the Americans fully populated and/or seized it | |||
** US was motivated by railroad route through the region | |||
=== religious awakenings === | === religious awakenings === | ||