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What We've Bought and What We Paid for It

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 8.

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What We've Bought and What We Paid for It.

SINCE the present Government was established, the United States have acquired the following territory, on the terms named:
  1. The purchase of Louisiana and Mississippi Valley, in 1803, from France, for $15,000,000.
  2. The purchase of Florida, in 1810, from Spain, for $3,000,000.
  3. The annexation of Texas, in 1845.
  4. The purchase of California, New Mexico, and Utah, from Mexico, for $15,000,000, in 1848.
  5. The purchase of Arizona from Mexico, for $10,000,000, in 1854.
  6. The purchase of the immense Russian possessions, running down on the Pacific coast from the North Pole to fifty-four forty north latitude, at which line it strikes the British possessions, for $7,200,000.