U.S. Expansion timeline by Anthony Gutierrez https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk p.1 en-us 2021-09-17 14:58:54 UTC 2025-11-09 05:36:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Louisiana purchase 2910599 https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748938237
The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.]]> 2021-09-17 15:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748938237 Indian removal act 2910599 https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748942972 Introduction. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. most left quietly without a fight meanwhile some stayed and resisted relocation polocy]]> 2021-09-17 15:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748942972 Annexation of Texas 2910599 https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748947383 In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex the territory of Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War.

]]> 2021-09-17 15:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748947383 Mexican Cession (Or Mexican American War) 2910599 https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748953755 Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico.]]> 2021-09-17 15:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748953755 Purchase of Alaska 2910599 https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748955469 On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. ]]> 2021-09-17 15:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748955469 Hawaiian Islands 2910599 https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748958619 By 1853, the native population was down to 70,000. In 1893, American colonists controlled Hawaii's sugar-based economy, and they easily overthrew the kingdom and established the Republic of Hawaii.]]> 2021-09-17 15:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748958619 Spanish American War 2910599 https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748962028 The Spanish-American War was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.]]> 2021-09-17 15:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2910599/3jht4505oiv9anzk/wish/1748962028