Alaska Purchase and the Annexation of Hawaii

Westward Expansion and Territorial Growth of the United States

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Explain the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia and the 1898 annexation of Hawaii as late 19th-century territorial expansions.

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Westward Expansion and Territorial Growth of the United States

3rd Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Explain how transportation innovations, territorial acquisitions, and pioneer migrations expanded the United States from 1791 to 1898.

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4.T4.2Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Give examples of some of the ways the United States acquired new states (beyond the 13 original states) and additional territories between 1791 and 1898, including purchasing land called the Louisiana Territory from France, adding territory in the Southwest as a result of war with Mexico, settling a treaty with Britain to gain land called the Oregon Territory in the Northwest, purchasing Alaska from Russia, annexing Hawaii, and adding territories such as Puerto Rico as a result of a war with Spain.