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HOW ARE NATION SPREAD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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HOW ARE NATION SPREAD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

BY: JEREMY GLINES
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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
Photo by perpetualplum

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
Photo by fables98

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 
Photo by B.D.'s world

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
Photo by John-Morgan

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
Photo by tim caynes