Remake of Empire for Liberty? by Gloria Djidjo https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0 The Story of American Expansion to the Mississippi River en-us 2019-02-12 18:34:43 UTC 2023-02-23 02:29:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png How Did the U.S gain this territory? 1220123 https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330498881  The president is allowed to take possession of, and occupy the land given up by the France to the U.S. by the treaty concluded at Paris on the thirteenth day of April.

The Secretary of the Treasury is allowed to pay the French Republic the eleven million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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]]> 2019-02-12 18:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330498881 How did gaining this territory benefit the U.S.? 453120 https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330499758  It has increased and filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi.they are preparing to strengthen the ownership by occupying it with their wives and children.
This will decrease the chances of war and open to us new and ever-increasing markets for our products. The safety of New Orleans and of our whole southwestern frontier against aggression, as well as the interests of the whole Union, would be increased by annexing Texas.


]]> 2019-02-12 18:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330499758 What were he costs of gaining this territory, for the U.S 432697 https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330500620 They would be forced to admit the new states as slave states. Doing so will worsen the problem of unequal representation from slave and free states.
 The  laws and the benefits of their republican institutions should be extended over them in the distant regions which they have selected for their homes
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]]> 2019-02-12 18:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330500620 How did the original inhabitants resist American expansion? 432697 https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330501389 Settlers followed the railroads to the western regions of North America, further pushing the Native Americans off of their lands. Buffalo, a main source of survival for the native Americans were hunted for food and sport, decimating the buffalo population and damaging the native American population as well.
google.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/f0fdbc3a-87d2-4acd-9bbb-6b80652f371b/]]> 2019-02-12 18:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330501389 How did U.S. acquisition of this territory impact those who already lived there? 432697 https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330502085 They would be citizens of the United States without enjoying personal freedom, protection for property, and above all the privileges of free representative government. Therefore they did not imagine that they would not have those rights.
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]]> 2019-02-12 18:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330502085 Was the U.S. justified in acquiring the territory? Why or why not? 432169 https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330973191 2019-02-13 18:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/453120/b1bn6j0ktcm0/wish/330973191