Question

During the first half of the 1800s, the US annexed (added) several territories to extend its borders from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Which territories did the United States add peacefully? Which territories were obtained through war?
Use the answers from the US Territorial Acquisitions sorting activity, and Lesson 15 in your TCI textbook to write a complete sentence that describes how each territory was added:
The Louisiana Purchase
The Oregon Territory
The Mexican Cession
The Gadsden Purchase
Texas
Florida

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The United States purchased land from France -- we call this the Louisiana Purchase and it included the land west of the Mississippi River all the way to the Rocky Mountains (Louisiana Territory).
2. The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.
3. The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.
4. The Gadsden Purchase, is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.
5. French colonization of Texas: 1684–1689 In April 1682, French nobleman René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had claimed the entire Mississippi River Valley for France. The following year, he convinced King Louis XIV to establish a colony near the Mississippi, essentially splitting Spanish Florida from New Spain.
6. Mexican Texas: 1821–1836
7. Spanish Texas: 1690–1821
8. French Texas: 1684–1689
9. Republic of Texas: 1836–1845
10. The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The Gadsden Purchase

The Gadsden Purchase, is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.

The Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.

The Oregon Territory

The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon

The Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi.

Start date: 1803

End date: 30 April 1803