1778. Though in 1795, Pinckney's Treaty with Spain allowed America to travel freely on the Mississippi
Western lands.
Atlantic charter
Washington has fought in the Revolutionary War. He helped us gain freedom from Great Britain.
The US did not gain their current territories of American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands as a result of the Spanish-American War.The US did gain the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as a result of the Spanish-American War.
In taking control of Guam from Spain after the Spanish-American War, the US gained a base from which it could protect its interests in the Far East (especially those in China, which at the time had an 'Open Door Policy' on its economy and was divided into economic blocs by several European nations), as well as monitor and possibly contain or check the growing influence of Japan, which had built a powerful modern military, and had recently defeated China in an 1894-1895 war, which resulted in a greatly increased Japanese presence in the Western Pacific, a possible future threat for the US.
The US does not have control over the Cuban economy.
The US never had control of Rumania
We built it
more land
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It bought Alaska in 1867.
The US bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.
No, the US has never had control of Brazil.
The US gained control of the Utah Territory based on the treaty with Mexico that ended the Mexican War
By bullying smaller countries to gain control of their resources.
-Took land from the Native Americans and forced them onto reserves -Caused trouble with the Mexican and Native American removal -The US killed many Natives in order to gain control of the west -Angered other nations because of forceful gain of land -It was dangerous to move west, many people died on the trail
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