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In the early 1600s, the British king began establishing colonies in American. By the 1700s, most of the settlements had formed into 13 British colonies.

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Was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, it was finalized in 1854, where the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.

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The United States now wanted control of Florida. Spain's attempt to bring settlers to Florida failed, and by 1800 Spain's control of Florida had weakened. Gaining control of Florida for the United States would mean gaining control of the Mississippi River. That was an important route for trade.

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Jefferson bought the Louisiana purchase from napoleon for 15 million dollars. Napoleon was reluctant to sell the Louisiana purchase, but he had to because he needed the money to pay his men and he needed military force

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Originally Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States claimed the territory. In 1819, under the terms of the Transcontinental Treaty, Spain ceded it's claims to the territory to the United States.

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The United States signed a treaty with the British to connect to British Canada, and create a northern boundary between the United States and Canada.

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The insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North America colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America.

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On May 5, 1845, Texas President Jones called for a convention on July 4, 1845, to consider the annexation and a constitution. On June 23, the Texas Congress accepted the US Congress's joint resolution of March 1, 1845, annexing Texas to the United States, and consented to the convention.

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This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By it's terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of it's territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona, and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming