The Geographic Expansion of Continental United States

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The Geographic Expansion of Continental United
States
1783 - 1853
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The Thirteen Original Colonies
Virginia 1607 New York 1626 Massachusetts 1630
New Hampshire 1630 Maryland 1634 Connecticut 1
636 Rhode Island 1636 Delaware 1638 North Caro
lina 1653 New Jersey 1660 South Carolina 1670 P
ennsylvania 1682 Georgia 1733
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British Canada
Recognized the independence of the thirteen col
onies
Established the boundaries between
the United States and British North America
Mississippi River
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Louisiana Purchase 1803
British Canada

• Acquisition by the United States of more
• than 530,000,000 acres

• From France in 1803, at the cost of about
• 3 per acre 15 million

• The land included in the Purchase
• comprised 22.3 percent of the territory
• of the modern United States.

Spanish Territory

• The Louisiana Purchase led to a dispute
• between the United States and Spain

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Lake Superior
Rush-Bagot Agreement -1817
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie

• A treaty conducted between the United States and
  the United Kingdom

• Provided for the demilitarization of the Great
  Lakes and Lake Champlain

• Laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary
  between the U.S. and
  
• British North America.

• It laid the groundwork for and eventually led to
  the Treaty of Washington of 1871,
  
• which completed disarmament.

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Treaty Line of 1818
Lake of the Woods
Between United States Great Britian
Provided a line drawn from the most
northwestern point of the Lake of the
Woods, along the 49th parallel to the
Rocky Mountains).
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Adams-Onis Treaty - 1819
A historic agreement between the United
States and Spain
In the west, the boundary was
determined to be north from the
Gulf of Mexico to the 32nd parallel,
then north to the Red River, then west alon
g the Red River, then north to the Arkansas
, then west to its headwaters, then north t
o the 42nd parallel, and then to the Pacific O
cean.
Oregon Territory
42nd parallel
100 W
Texas
32 N
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Adams-Onis Treaty - 1819
United States

• In addition to the terms of the previous slide,
• Spain granted Florida to the United States

West Florida

• Spain sold its territories of East and West
  Florida to the
  
• United States.

East Florida

• The U.S. paid 5 million for the territorial
  rights of Florida

• The U.S. also agreed to assume financial claims
  by
  
• residents against the Spanish government

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Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842
The Treaty was significant in that it furthered
the practice of settling troublesome issues thro
ugh diplomacy.
Settled the disputed position of the U.S.-Canada
border in the Great Lakes region
See next slide
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842
U.S. claims
Current boundary
British claims
This treaty marked the end of unofficial
fighting (known informally as the Aroostook War)
along
the Maine-New Brunswick border
Settled the dispute over the location of the
Maine between the United States and Canada
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Texas Annexation of 1845
Prior to 1824 Texas was a Spanish possession
and thereafter part of independent Mexico
After setbacks at the Alamo, the Texans were
able to win a rousing victory at San Jacinto and

gain their independence in 1836
In 1836, the Republic of Texas won its
independence
from Mexico.
In 1845, the Republic of Texas voluntarily
annexed by the United States.
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo - 1848
(The peace treaty ending the Mexican-American War
(18461848))
Oregon Territory
The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession,
in which Mexico ceded 525,000 square miles to
the United States in exchange for 15 million.
Mexican Cession
The United States also agreed to take over 3.25
million in debts Mexico owed to American citizen
s.
Mexico
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Oregon Treaty 1846
54 40 Line US Claim
is a bilateral treaty between Great
Britain and the United States
The treaty brought an end to the
Oregon boundary dispute by settling
competing American and British claims
to the Oregon Country
49th Parallel
Set the U.S. and British North American
border at the 49th parallel
42nd Parallel
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The Gadsden Purchase 1853
is a 29,640 mi region of what is today
southern Arizona and New Mexico that
was purchased by the United States from
Mexico.
The purchase included lands south of the Gila
River and west of the Rio Grande.
The U.S. paid Mexico 10 million to secure the
land
The acquisition of land in this purchase defined
the final boundaries of the continental United
States.
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