We originally started out with just the thirteen colonies. Then Spanish Florida didnt have enough money or soldiers to keep the balance. Then we envade florida and took over the colony by a treaty with spain. Next we bought all of the middle united states from the french. It was a total of 828,800 square miles and it cost 15 million dollars. It was called the louisiana purchase.Then we acquired most of the southwestern united states with the mexican american war. It was a hard fought war with the famous battle of the alamo.http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/13colonies/13coloniesbw.GIFhttp://www.uoregon.edu/~kimball/images/1803.Louisiana.purchase.jpg
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