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United States Territorial Acquisitions
Use the information provided in the map to answer the following questions.
1. From what country did the United States cede the land that is now Florida?
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List five of the states with a majority of their land area located in the Louisiana Purchase.
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7. From what country did the United States acquire the Oregon Territory?
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8. Which of these land areas was acquired first – the Gadsden Purchase or the Annexation of Texas?
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Continue this exercise on the back of this form.
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United States Territorial Acquisitions (continued)
9. What land area was acquired from Russia in 1867?
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10-14. Match the following states with the acquisition that they were a part of.
10. _______ South Dakota
A. Oregon Territory, 1846
11. _______ Virginia
B. Spanish Cession, 1819
12. _______ Arizona
C. Treaty with British, 1783
13. _______ Idaho
D. Louisiana Purchase, 1803
14. _______ Mississippi
E. Texan Annexation, 1845
F. Mexican Cession, 1848
15. Which what country did the United States trade land along what would become the
Canadian border in 1818?
Spain
Russia
Mexico
Great Britain
France
16-18. List three land areas that the United States bought from other countries and what country they were
purchased from.
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19. Along with Hawaii, what other island land area was added to the United States in 1898?
Unlike Hawaii this land area was never given statehood status.
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20. What is the latest (more recently acquired) land area on this map?
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