Territorial+Expansion+8a

America Started To Expand from 1801 and 1861, So this page is about Territory Expansion

What Territories?
 * Louisiana Purchase
 * Florida
 * Texas
 * Oregon
 * California

L0UiSiANA PURCHASE
 * 1803
 * Thomas Jefferson bought this from France
 * This doubled the size of the US
 * Lewis And Clark explored this

LEWiS AND CLARKE EXPEDiTI0N
 * Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke
 * It was From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

FL0RiDA
 * 1819
 * From Spain
 * Was a US territory in 1821

TEXAS
 * 1845
 * Was a Independant Republic in 1836
 * It was its own country
 * it was added to the US

0REG0N
 * 1846
 * Oregon Territory
 * Was divided between the US and Great Britain
 * Oregon Trail (1840)

CALiF0RNiA (California Gold Rush)
 * US was at war with Mexico
 * Rio Grande Dispute
 * US gets Cali. and Southwest territories.

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