Webster-Ashburton Treaty-
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This 1842 agreement with Britain resolved the boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick,Canada, setting the northestern
U.S. border.
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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.
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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.
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Conflict between the United States and Mexican after the U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its
own.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo-
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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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