MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Louisiana
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California
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Nevada
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
Detailed explanation-2: -Out of this empire were carved in their entirety the states of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma; in addition, the area included most of the land in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Minnesota.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Federalists strongly opposed the purchase, favoring close relations with Britain over closer ties to Napoleon. Both Federalists and Jeffersonians were concerned over the purchase’s constitutionality.
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.