Ten TermsWestward Expansion

Molly ChaseU.S. History AP

1600s• 13 Colonies

1607 Virginia1620 Massachusetts1623 New Hampshire1634 Maryland1635 Connecticut1636 Rhode Island1638 Delaware1653 N. Carolina1663 S. Carolina1664 New York/New Jersey1682 Pennsylvania1732 Georgia

1700s

• Proclamation of 1763 (angers colonists- says cannot move west of Appalachians)

1800s

• 1803 Louisiana Purchase (828,000 sq. miles)• 1804 Lewis and Clark• 1835 Oregon Trail• 1846-1847 Mexican War• 1849 Gold Rush (California)

• 1853 Gadsden Purchase

• 1898 Spanish-American War

1900s

• 1912 Annexation of Alaska• 1914 Panama Canal