Here’s a brief history. Twenty years later, the Louisiana Purchase marked the country’s first major expansion, with the United States buying the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million ...

Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the United States ... Very quickly after the United States does all of its contiguous territorial expansion within North America, it starts ...

Even with this enormous expansion of slavery ... Texas is annexed into the United States, sparking the Mexican War. By 1848, Mexico cedes more than half of its territory to the U.S., including ...

with Democrats siding with expansion, and Abraham Lincoln calling the war a "conquest brought into existence to catch votes." Among the territories gained by the United States was California ...

The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory...belonging to the United ... Territorial Expansion and American Legal History ...

President-elect Donald Trump unveiled sweeping plans for US territorial expansion in the Western Hemisphere during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida. He refused ...