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| === "frontier" western expansion === | | === "frontier" western expansion === |
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| === List of major territorial acquisitions & treaties ===
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| [[File:UnitedStatesExpansion.png|thumb|UnitedStatesExpansion|alt=UnitedStatesExpansion.png]]
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| * 1818 '''Treaty of 1818'''
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| ** Britain ceded land northwest of the Northwest Territory (western modern MN and north & east ND)
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| ** US ceded lands north of the 49th parallel above modern MT
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| ** established the 49th parallel as the border of US and Canada from MN to the Rocky Mountains (leaving Oregon Country in joint-control)
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| ** called for "joint occupation" by British and Americans of '''Oregon Country''' (northwest corner of present US, including OR, WA, ID)
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| * 1819 '''Adams-Onis Treaty'''
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| ** Spain ceded Florida to the US
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| * 1842 '''Webster–Ashburton Treaty'''
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| ** settled border disputes along modern US-Canadian border, including in the modern states of ME, MN, MT, ID & WA (reaffirming the 49th parallel)
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| * 1846 '''Oregon Treaty'''
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| ** Britain ceded claims to "Oregon Country," setting the 49th parallel across to the Pacific Ocean as the northern border
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| ** Oregon Country included modern OR, WA, ID and parts of WY and MT
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| * 1848 '''Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo'''
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| * 1853 '''Gadsden Purchase'''
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| ** negotiated after the Mexican-American war to purchase Mexican territory in the south of modern AZ and southwest area of NM
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| ** includes modern AZ cities of Yuma & Tucson
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| ** 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
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| ** US was motivated by railroad route through the region
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| === religious awakenings === | | === religious awakenings === |