How did the united states manage to expand its territory across the continent?

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Manifest Destiny. Many politicians got Americans to believe that it was their destiny to span the continent and claim all the land. This even was also know as Westward Expansion, and refers to the time period where Americans migrated west for a new life or economic pursuit.

the intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. in great britain, these laws were referred to as the coercive acts.

the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.