Westward Expansion

The growth of the United States from the original 13 colonies to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• westward expansion

Treaty that ended the American Revolution and established the Mississippi River as the western border of the United States.

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Convention of 1818

• Oregon Treaty 1846

• Gadsden Purchase 1853

Created an orderly procedure for establishing territories and applying for statehood.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Northwest Ordinance 1787

• Louisiana Purchase 1803

Number of people a territory needs to become a state.

• 30,000

• 40,000

• 50,000

• 60,000

Purchase from France during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. This purchase doubled the size of our country.

• Gadsden Purchase 1853

• Florida Purchase 1819

• Texas Purchase 1845

• Louisiana Purchase 1803

Treaty between the United States and Britain that set the 49th parallel as the boundary between British North America and the U.S. across the West.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Convention of 1818

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Oregon Treaty 1846

Spain ceded this state to the United States in 1819.

• Louisiana

• Texas

• Florida

• Mississippi

To give up land by treaty.

• cede

• annex

To add on or take over.

• cede

• annex

The belief that America had the God-given right to expand across the continent from "sea to shining sea."

• westward expansion

• Manifest Destiny