Map 4 - U.S. territorial expansion 1783 - 1853, 1867, 1898, 1917
including acquisition of the respective regions' societies and peoples
Alaska Purchase
1867
(from Russia)
625
CANADA
Ceded to Great Britain 1818
Miles
British Cession
1818
Washington
Lake
Superior
North Dakota
Oregon Treaty 1846
(Treaty with Great Britain)
Montana
Minnesota
Lake
Huron
Idaho
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Wyoming
Louisiana Purchase 1803
(from France)
California
Colorado
Boundary with
Spain, 1819
Mexican Cession 1848
Kansas
Oklahoma
Gadsden Purchase 1853
(from Mexico)
New Mexico
o
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
ri e
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland Delaware
District
of
West
Columbia
Virginia Virginia
Territory of the Thirteen States
(Ceded by Great Britain) 1783
Kentucky
North Carolina
Tennessee
South Carolina
Arkansas
100
Puerto Rico
Miles
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Texas
Texas Annexation 1845
(former Republic of Texas)
Spanish Cession 1819
Puerto Rico Ceded
by Spain 1898
Miles
Indiana
Missouri
Louisiana
Hawai'i Annexation 1898
(former Republic of Hawai'i)
170
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ta r
On
New
Hampshire
Arizona
MEXICO
Hawaii
k
La
Ohio
Illinois
Spanish Cession
1819
e
La k
Michigan
Iowa
Nebraska
Utah
Nevada
Vermont
Lake Michi gan
Oregon
Maine
West Florida
(Spanish Cession)
1819
Florida
Virgin Islands
Purchased from
Denmark 1916/17
Virgin Islands
East Florida
(Spanish Cession)
1819
1,500
Source: Adapted from Andro Linklater, The Fabric of America:
How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and
Forged Our National Identity (New York: Walker, 2007), front paper.
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GIS Services
Institute for Social Science Research
Arizona State University
April 2008