MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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They fought a war for more land.
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They negotiated treaties for more land.
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They bought more land.
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They were given the land by countries that did not want it anymore.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
Detailed explanation-2: -The purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States of America was created on July 4, 1776, with the U.S. Declaration of Independence of thirteen British colonies in North America. In the Lee Resolution two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
Detailed explanation-4: -America consists of 57 countries with a total land area of 43 million km² (16 million square miles), representing 28% of the Earth’s habitable surface.