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SEVEN YEARS WAR (FRENCH-INDIAN WAR), 1762

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

PINCKNEY'S TREATY 1795

LOUISIANA TERRITORY, 1803

• Purchased from Napoleon for $15 million

RUSH-BAGOT, 1818

• Agreement with Britain after War of 1812

ADAMS ONIS, 1819

TEXAS

See entry on Texas.

OREGON

• Oregon was jointly occupied by US and Great Britain (See Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1818)

• Polk had campaigned for sole ownership for the US

• From southern border of Alaska (Russian territory) (54 40 parallel)

• To southern Oregon Territory

• Americans supported this

• And nearly 5,000 Americans settled there after crossing Oregon Trail

• After Polk was elected though

• He sought a compromise at the 49th parallel

• Because he planned to attack Mexico

• And didn’t want trouble on two borders

• Oregon Treaty 1846

• US got Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and parts of Montana

MEXICAN CESSION

• Polk also wanted to add California to the Union

• Especially San Francisco Bay

• To open US trade with Asia

• But Mexico had strong territorial claims to California

• Missions etc.

• Combination

• Of claims to California

• And troops in Texas

• Led to conflict with Mexico

GADSDEN PURCHASE 1853

• Land purchased from Mexico

• To build a transcontinental railroad from New Orleans to Los Angeles

ALASKA

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898