United States territory

Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. During the 1800s, many Americans began to settle in the western frontier which most of it was uncharted territory. Through several readings I will be able to define the manifest destiny and how it was accomplished. The main concepts of the manifest destiny were that it was God-given right that the people of the United States had expand territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This concept of manifest destiny had existed throughout the American history…

purchase, the U.S president James Monroe traveled to Paris to help Robert Livingston in the Louisiana Purchase negotiation. Around April, after James Monroe arrived, the French asked Livingston if the United States were interested to purchase all of the Louisiana Territory. On the year of 1803, the United States successfully bought approximately 827,000 square miles of land of the Mississippi River for fifteen million dollars from the France. During the purchase, Thomas Jefferson had a moral…

landscape. This variety in style can be credited to both Spanish and French influences that occupied the area in colonial American times. In 1803, however, governance of this territory was handed over to the United States of America in a trade deal with Napoleon and the French occupants. The Louisiana Purchase is studied in United States History as one of the largest real-estate deals our nation has encountered, and while this is the case, some truths behind this monumental transaction have been…

backed this statement when they made it clear that they would fight any European power that got involved in their internal affairs. This was to protect the North American republic, the US itself, and its future states westward. The Monroe Doctrine was seen as communication from the United States to European powers. It is also said that “the doctrine itself was not written in a friendly-spirit toward the European…

In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico. The war, nicknamed “Mr. Polk’s War”, was not justified. The reasons for the war were unjust. The official reason for declaring war was a small skirmish that was debated in more ways than one. Many believed that it was set up by Polk to push his agenda. He had always been a strong advocate in expansion and had built his platform on wanting to expand into parts of northern Mexico and to gain territories further to the west that Mexico controlled.…

be legal, believing that he was not authorized to make the purchase, but did so anyway. One can also easily wonder how a man of great integrity could go against his own philosophy and strict interpretation of the United States constitution. By making the purchase of the Louisiana territory, Thomas Jefferson had to set aside all his beliefs and principles for the greater…

tensions rose after 1 509-ounce gold nugget was found in the disputed territory. Both countries claimed the gold was discovered in their territory and President Grover Cleveland attempted to intervene when he became eager to enforce the Monroe Doctrine and to keep Britain from gaining more land in the Western Hemisphere. But eventually, a neutral arbitrator settled the dispute. Also, the message to the world that the United States would enforce the Monroe Doctrine was clear. It describes a…

Wars in the United States have been fought over a variety of issues such as territory, resources, or political freedom. A key component of war is why and how the war began . Although ideally war should be avoided and compromise and negotiation should be the focus, wars still occur for a variety of reasons. When war does occur there are conditions outlined in the “Just War Theory” that determine whether the war is just or unjust. In United States history, the Mexican-American War and the…

from 1846 to 1868 was the first war that the Americans fought on the foreign soil. The expansionist-minded President James A. Polk believed that the United States had a “manifest destiny,” a God-given right to occupy the land across the west to the Pacific Ocean. He believed that the land from Texas to California should be part of the U.S. territory. [1] It was also his strong belief that the Americans could better manage the lands and the continent than the native Indians as well as the…

with Mexico? The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because, America invaded mexico ,American were stealing land from Mexico, and the American were disobeying Mexico rules when they were in Texas. During the year 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain. Before America took mexico’s land, it was about the size of the United States itself. Mexico stretched from Guatemala to Oregon . Texas tried two time to apply for annexation to the United States, both times…