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Chapter thirteen

An Age of Expansionism

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Webster-Ashburton Treaty-
This 1842 agreement with Britain resolved the boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick,Canada, setting the northestern U.S. border.
Alamo-
In 1835, Americans living in the Mexican state of texas formented a revolution. Mexican lost the conflict, but not before its troops defeated and killed a group of American rebels at the Alamo, a fort in San Antonio.
Manifest Destiny-
Coined in 1845, this term referred to a doctrine in support of terriotorial expansion based on the beliefs that population growth demand territorial expansion equaled the exspansion of freedom.
Mexican-Amercan War-
Conflict between the United States and Mexican after the U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its own.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo-

Signed on 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican-American war. Mexico relinquished its claims to Texas and ceded an additional 500,000 square miles to the United States for $15 million.

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