The United States won the territory from Mexico following the Mexican-American War….

• The United States captured the British colonies of Africa.
• The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
• Mexico gave up Texas and other land to the United States.
• The French ceded Jamestown to the United States.

Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States, 1846-48. In 1783, American and British representatives met in Paris to formally end the American Revolutionary War and determine the boundaries of the new republic. The Treaty of Paris granted the United States title to an extraordinarily vast expanse of land.

The United States was formed as a result of the American Revolution when the thirteen American colonies revolted against the rule of Great Britain. After the war ended, the U.S. Constitution formed a new government. These thirteen colonies became the first 13 states as each ratified the Constitution.

The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American revolution.

Britain developed through a combination of dynastic shifts, strategic trade outposts and aggressive nationalistic policies, expressed through its navy, into a position of world-wide authority (if not supremacy) between the years 1660 and 1760.

If the colonists had lost the war, there probably wouldn’t be a United States of America, period. A British victory in the Revolution probably would have prevented the colonists from settling into what is now the U.S. Midwest. Additionally, there wouldn’t have been a U.S. war with Mexico in the 1840s, either.