Here’s When The U.S. Acquired Its Territories—And How Much They Cost—As Trump Renews Calls To Take Over Greenland
President-elect Donald Trump has cited national security concerns in suggesting the U.S. take over Greenland, but it’s ...
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Greenland is a no, but what territories has the U.S. purchased?
In 1803, the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, approximately 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The lands acquired stretched from the ...
Why does Trump want Greenland and could he get it?
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States and does not rule out using ...
How the US could in fact make Canada an American territory
"We take nothing by conquest…Thank God," wrote the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, an influential ...
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Besides Greenland, What Other Arctic Territories May the US Covet?
President Trump has recently expressed a desire to expand American territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even ...
'Buy us!': Greenlanders shocked, intrigued, bewildered by Trump zeal for Arctic territory
A staged joke or serious threat? Trump seems intent on controlling a territory that's been part of the Danish crown since ...
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Trump buying Greenland would be largest US territory acquisition ever — topping even these massive gains
We were poised to do something.” Greenland is larger than the massive US territory gained by the Louisiana Purchase from France. HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Trump’s ...
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Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis
More than a century after being acquired by the United States from Spain, the island continues to grapple with its status as a U.S. territory and the legacy of colonialism in the Caribbean.