US Land Acquisitions

US Land Acquisitions

How did we get so big so fast?

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• Texas Annexation

• Gadsden Purchase

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Territory

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• Northwest Territory

• Louisiana Territory

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• Northwest Territory

• Lousiana Territory

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• Florida

• 13 Colonies

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• Gadsden Purchase

• Oregon Territory

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Which land acquisition is identified in this image? (Where is the smiley face?)

• 13 Colonies

• Florida

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The area purchased from France by Thomas Jefferson for $15 million. It doubled the size of the United States.

• Florida

• Oregon Territory

• Louisiana Territory

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The area was purchased from Mexico. It was used by the railroads to connect California to the rest of the United States.

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

• Florida

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From Great Britain as a direct result of the American Revolution. An ordinance was written to establish how this territory would be divided into states, including a ban on slavery.

• 13 Colonies

• Oregon Territory

• Northwest Territory

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The area from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean that formed the original states of the United States. The first English settlement was in Jamestown

• 13 Colonies

• Northwest Territory

• Lousiana Territory

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The area, including the current state of California, ceded to the United States after the U.S.-Mexican War.

• Florida

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

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The area ceded to the United States by Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty as a result of General Jackson's military victories.

• Florida

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

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The Mexican colony that became an independent nation before joining the United States. Its addition upset the balance between slave and free states.

• Florida

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

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The area in the Northwest part of the United States that was originally shared with Great Britain. Americans demanded 54 40' or fight; Britain compromised @ 49 parallel.

• Oregon Territory

• Northwest Territory

• Lousiana Territory