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Westward Expansion Map Activity
Directions: Use your notes and your textbook to complete the map of Westward Expansion for the United States. For each section, you are to identify
When the land was claimed or acquired by the U.S.?
1803 What country the land was acquired from?
When: When: 1846
How the U.S. was able to acquire it?
When:
1846
From whom: Britain
From whom: France
From whom: Great Britain
How
How did
the U.S. acquire the land?
did the U.S. acquire the land?
They bought the land for 15
million dollars
signed a treaty
How did the U.S. acquire the land?
First decided to join occupation but then more
americans came, and Britain didn't want to fight over
the land.
When: 1848
From whom: Mexico
How did
the U.S. acquire the
land?
War to decide whom the land would belong to
When:1819
From whom: Spain
When: 1853
the U.S. acquire the
How did
land? 1. led frontier forces to
From whom: Mexico
How did
the U.S. acquire the
land? Bought for $10,000,000
When: 1845
From whom: Mexico
How did
the U.S. acquire the land? War to decide the
boundaries
defeat Native American
Tribes
2.Spain had control at this
time so countries had to go
to war
3. Neither country wanted
to go to war, so they signed
a treaty giving America land
for 5 million in exchange