ANNEXED IN 1845, BORDER DISPUTE CAUSES WAR WITH MEXICO, OREGON, TEXAS, LOUISIANA, LAND ACQUIRED IN TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO-- LED TO DEBATE OVER SPREAD OF SLAVERY, MEXICAN CESSION, GADSDEN PURCHASE, OREGON TREATY, 1853, LAND PURCHASED FROM MEXICO- $ 10 MILLION- NEEDED FOR SOUTHERN TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD, LOUISIANA PURCHASE, ACQUSITION OF FLORIDA, GADSDEN PURCHASE, 1819, ( ADAMS-ONIS TREATY ) U.S. PAID SPAIN $5 MILLION FOR THIS LAND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. , MAINE, FLORIDA, MISSOURI, 1846, TREATY WITH BRITAIN, DIVISION OF NORTHWESTERN LAND," 54°40 OR FIGHT ", " A SETTLERS PARADISE " , OREGON, MINNESOTA, CALIFORNIA, 1803, PRESIDENT JEFFERSON REDEFINES PRESIDENTIAL POWERS, TREATY WITH FRANCE, $15 MILLION, DOUBLES SIZE OF U.S. , TEXAS ANNEXATION, MEXICAN CESSION, LOUISIANA PURCHASE, " MANIFEST DESTINY "- THE UNITED STATES WAS DESTINED BY GOD TO OCCUPY ALL THE LAND , FROM THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO PACIFIC OCEAN, FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE COLORADO RIVER, ELECTED IN 1844, THIS U.S. PRESIDENT MADE " MANIFEST DESTINY " HIS NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. , ANDREW JACKSON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JAMES K. POLK, 1787, THIS LAW CREATED A PROCESS FOR ADDING TERRITORIES TO THE UNITITED STATES, AND A PROCEDURE FOR TERRITORIES TO BECOME STATES. , NORTHWEST ORDINANCE, WESTERN EXPANSION ACT, HOMESTEAD ACT, THIS NEW INDUSTRIAL INVENTION LED TO THE RAPID CONSTRUTION OF RAILROADS, SKYSCRAPERS, AND BRIDGES. , COTTON - THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, STEEL- BESSMER PROCESS, GASOLINE- INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE.

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