FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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France still rightfully owned Louisiana
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the U.S. should rightfully own Mexico
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Mexico still rightfully owned Louisiana
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Texas should belong to the U.S.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The Louisiana Purchase led to the establishment of Texas. U.S. expansionists-most of them slave holders from the South-claimed Texas was a part of the Louisiana Purchase and settled there. They continued to do so after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result of this treaty, the nation doubled in size, adding territory that would become the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Minnesota, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.
Detailed explanation-3: -The entire states of what would become Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, and parts of Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. In 1800, the vast region came under French control after Napoleon reached a treaty agreement with Spain.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward.