1. Westward Expansion
We can thus wonder why the USA needed to enlarge its country so dramatically and will therefore analyse the reasons of this territorial expansion. ... Then, every following decade, and this for a period of 60 years or so, the population of the USA has increased by roughly 35 %. ... At the beginning of the 19th century, Jefferson realised that the USA should purchase New Orleans and enough of the West Florida to give it control of the mouth of the Mississippi and of the seas. ... Indeed, this territorial acquisition nearly doubled the size of the USA- it grew by about one million square miles,...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate