HOW ARE NATION SPREAD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

LOUISIANA purchase

• Thomas Jefferson sent Robert Livingston to purchase New Orleans
•  When Livingston got there Napoleon offered all of France's land
• We got the land for less than 3 cents an acre
• The land doubled Americas size

FLORIDA cession

• All the slaves were escaping into Florida 
• Andrew Jackson marched on Flordia to get the slaves back
• Fearing war Spain gave up Florida to America in 1819

texas annexation

• Texas went through a war against mexico to become free
• Once free Texas remained free for nearly 10 years!
• In 1845 america agreed to annex Texas as its newest state

Oregon trritory

• In 1846 American settlers began moving into Orgeon
• Although we were sharing the territory with England we were overloading it
• Discussions between England and america led to us getting Oregon 
• The boundary is the 49th parallel 

mexican cession

• America and Mexico disagreed on the border of Texas
• We also wanted California so we put troops on the border.
• Once the fighting started we won many victories 
• We marched on Mexico City on 1848 and took their captial
• The treaty of Guadalupe Hildago gave us the land from Teaxs to Californa

gadison purchase

• Final piece of land purchased for manifest destiny
• Bought from mexico for 10 million dollars
• it was purchased so the transcontenintial railroad could be finished