Week 7 Flashcards
Annexation
To add a territory to ones own territory
Manifest Destiny
Idea popular in the United States during the1800’s that the country must expand its boundaries to the pacific
Treaty of the Guadalupe hidalgo
Treaty signed between the U.S. And Mexico to end the US Mexican War.Mexico gave up all claims to Texas and agreed to the rio grande as the border between Texas and Mexico
Mexican Cession
Mexico gave up its provinces of California and New Mexico to the U.S. In return the U.S. Gave Mexico $15 million dollars
Gadsden purchase
In1853 the U.S. Paid Mexico an additional $10 million dollars for a strip of land along southern edge of the president day states of Arizona and New Mexico .with the Gadsden Purchase ,the U.S. Mainland reached its present size
Oregon territory
Land claimed by both the United States and Great Britain this was an ongoing dispute until the treaty of 1846,which set the boundary at the 49th parallel,where it is today.