MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Question
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What were the way/s or method/s used to expand the territory of the United States?
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war (military conquest)
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treaty (agreement)
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purchase (buying)
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all of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and treaties with Spain and Britain, the nation’s borders moved west to the Rocky Mountains, north to the 49th parallel, and south to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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