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Some wanted money

trade within their home country and some wanted religious freedom

They became 13 colonies that belonged to great Britain

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located on the continent of North America in the western hemisphere, between the Atlantic and pacific oceans.

The war wasn’t officially over but until the agreement to the treaty of Paris in 1783. The final treaty granted full independence and recognized the borders of the United States.

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Napoleon sold Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson

He sold it for 15 million because he need the money

He needed the money because he was going to go to war and need to pay his men

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Annexation was approved by the Texas and U.S. congresses in 1845, and the transfer of authority from the republic to the state of Texas took place in 1846. One unique feature of the annexation agreements was a provision permitting Texas to retain title to its public lands.

To wit, Texas would cede all its public lands to the United States, and the federal government would assume all its bonded debt, up to $10 million.

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

With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded over 525,000 square miles of territory to the United States in exchange for $15 million and the assumption of Mexican debts to American citizens, which reopened the slavery issue.

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The convention of 1818 set the boundary between the Missouri territory in the United States and British North America at the forty ninth parallel.

Then treaty secured fishing rights for us fishermen going along the Newfoundland and Labrador provided for joint control of oregon territory.

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The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which 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. The purpose of this was so they could build a railroad to California.

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The territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from 1848 to 1859.

When the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the union as the state of Oregon

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Bought Florida off Spain because American kept complaining about being attacked by natives

Bought it from Spain for 5 million

They used military action to demand Spain to control the natives