No current states.
the United states paid Mexico $15 million dollars for this land, which became known as the mexican cession
The British cession deals with the Treaty of 1818. The treaty was signed between Britain and the United States. Because of the treaty, Britain ceded, or gave, Rupert's Land as well as the land west to the Rocky Mountains to the United States. Rupert's Land was a territory that contained the Hudson Bay Drainage Basin, and other land that is now part of Canada.
The Mexican Cession was divided into New Mexico Territory, and Utah Territory.
The United States did acquire the Midway Islands through imperialism. The Midway Islands was initially un-owned and had no coaling station.
The British Cession happened because both New England and the US wanted to acquire more land.
1848
1819
The British cession of 1842 was a result of the Aroostook war which ended in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
Nothing
The French was the previous owner of British Cession. The United States purchased the western half of the Mississippi basin from France.
By force of arms against the British in the Revolutionary War.
No current states.
The convention or treaty of 1818
The Mexican Cession
1848
Mexican Cession