JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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West of the Mississippi River
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Southeastern portion of the United States
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Along the Canadian border with the United States
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West of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River
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Detailed explanation-1: -Westward expansion began in earnest in 1803. Thomas Jefferson negotiated a treaty with France in which the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory – 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River – effectively doubling the size of the young nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -With its triumph in the Mexican-American War, the United States seemingly realized its Manifest Destiny by gaining an immense domain (more than 525, 000 square miles [1, 360, 000 square km] of land), including present-day Arizona, California, western Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
Detailed explanation-4: -Following French defeat in the Seven Years’ War, Spain gained control of the territory west of the Mississippi, and the British received the territory to the east of the river. Following the establishment of the United States, the Americans controlled the area east of the Mississippi and north of New Orleans.