Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
The Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolutionary War included provisions that ceded this territory from Britain.
It was acquired after the Revolution when the United States got all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi. They also got land from the Louisiana purchase and from the war against Mexico.
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Appalachian mountains acquired
what borders did the United States gain when it acquired this territory in 1776
The US acquired the territory of Florida from Spain ceding it to the US.
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
In 1803.
The Gadsden Purchase. Purchased to provide the Southern Pacific RR with a southern route across the Rocky Mountains.
The area that is today the state of Minnesota was acquired by the United States in two separate events. First, the U.S. acquired the portion of Minnesota that is east of the Mississippi River as part of the Northwest Territory, a region that England and its American colonists won from France in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Later, the U.S. acquired the portion of Minnesota that is west of the Mississippi River in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
The US acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River in 1795. This was established through a treaty which Pinckney negotiated.