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FORT HALIFAX

  • They were building a road that would go from Halifax to Quebec which would go through Maine
  • Boundary dispute
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  • Mississppi River
  • What was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north.
  • For slaves they could use the Mississppi river for travel
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AUSTIN

  • His son, Stephen F. Austin, had the grant confirmed by Mexican authorities after his father’s death, and by the mid-1830s there were about 30,000 Americans ranching and growing cotton with the aid of several thousand black slaves
  • This was around 1845/1830's
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SEMINOLE

  • •The U.S. wanted to take Florida from Spain because of attacks by Seminole Indians and runaway slaves in Georgia.In 1819, President Monroe sent Andrew Jackson to Florida to help protect the U.S. border. Jackson invaded Florida
  • This was in 1819
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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

  • Frederick Douglas published accounts of successful black miner's in his paper the North Star. This encouraged many to go to California. Most going to the California gold rush were free men but some were brought as slaves to work for their masters. Many earned their freedom and paid for the freedom of their families.
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WILLAMATTE VALLEY

  • The Willamette Valley was an area of fertile farmland in the Oregon Territory which attracted large numbers of farmers in the 1830s and 1840s, especially those from the Mississippi River Valley. Reports of the abundance of this land sparked the movement of many pioneers to the West Coast.
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SOUTHERN ARIZONA

  • The Mexican regime was urgently in need of money and for $10 million sold the required strip of territory south of the Gila River, in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona
  • Arpund the 1840's
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LOUISIANA PURCHASE

  • We bought the land from Napolean for 15$ million
  • We used the land for farmers and others who needed to sell things
  • The are was a good land for tranding because it intersected with other countries who we could trade with
  • We got it from france in 1809
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FLORIDA

  • We got the land from Spain
  • Andrew Jackson took the land over when he was just supposed to be making sure no runaway slaves went there
  • Seminole indians were raiding georgia farms
  • They got the land from spain but had to give them 5$ million
  • We got it in 1819 from spain
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MAINE

  • There was a conflict betweent rival lumberjacks on the Maine canadian border
  • A treaty split the land between maine and british-canada
  • The conflict eas called the Aroostook war but wasnt an actual war
  • From great britian in 1849
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TEXAS

  • Texas was rich in cotton so many people wanted the land
  • Evenetually there were more americans then those of spanish decent
  • The land was good so they could bring slaves there to pick cotton
  • We got the land in 1845
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OREGON

  • The land was from spain britian and russia
  • We wanted the land because it was always sunny not many diseases lots of trees and pigs
  • So we wouldnt start war with britian we split it evenly amongst britian
  • We got it in 1846 from britian
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MEXICAN CESSION

  • Gold attraced miners so they would be able to make more money
  • Polk wanted present day mexico and california mexico was still mad at the u.s for gwtting texas
  • The treaty of guadalope hidalgo
  • we got it from mexico in 1848
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GADSEN PURCHASE

  • Land just south of southern arizona the u.s wanted it because it was flat and would be good for making a railroad.
  • We got it from mexico in 1853

Kendall Gilliam