Trump invokes new “manifest destiny”

Citing security and economic need, President-elect Trump
has proposed a new expansion of U.S. territory, with the
Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada in his sights


MANIFEST DESTINY: Term coined by The Democratic Review
in 1845 for inevitability of U.S. expansion across entire continent


Russian America (1799-1867) 

9
1846 Oregon Territory
Shared U.S.-British
territory 1818-46
4 1816 To UK 	3 1816 From UK

1622 Jamestown
European colonists
clash with Native
Americans in
first of 250 years
of Indian Wars

2 1803 Louisana
Purchase
From France

11 1853
Gadsden
Purchase
From Mexico

10 1848
Mexican
Cession

8 1845
Texas
Annexation

1 1776
Independence
From Britain

5 6 7
1819
Spanish
Cession
5. East Florida
6. West Florida
7. Louisiana

12
1867 Alaska
Purchase
From Russia

CANADA
UNITED STATES
MEXICO


President William McKinley (1897-1901)
Last major expansion of U.S. Territories

Canada 
Greenland

14 1899 Philippines
15 Until 1946
1899 Guam

16 1899 Cuba
Protectorate
until 1934

13 1898 Hawaii
50th State

17 1899 Puerto Rico

20 1917 Virgin Islands

19 1904 Panama Canal
Until 1979

18 1900 Samoa

Panama Canal

Sources: Britannica, History Picture: Newscom, Getty Images
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