How did the United States acquire the land?

Question

How did the United States acquire the land?

Answer 1

Name one country on earth that hasn't changed hands at one time or another due to war. Some people like to single out the US because they have an agenda. What's yours?

Answer 2

They wiped out most of the civilizations that were there first through biological warfare (diseases) and guns.

Answer 3

They stole it from the native Indians.

Answer 4

money?

Answer 5

Most they took. Some they bought from people who took it before them.

2 large purchases where the Louisiana purchase and Alaska.

Answer 6

They bought a little of it from a few people who were willing to give it up for money, while the majority of it they killed or simply forced the people off the land for.

Answer 7

stole from the indians, then mexicans, then hawaiians, then spanish, the philiphines, and the iraqies; but hey american dream right manifest that destiny...did u know US marines landed on the beaches of Nicaragua 42 times in the name of protecting Dole foods from the savage "marxists"

Answer 8

Depends on which part of "the land" you are referring to.  Because there were different circumstances and different times when the portions of land that make what the U.S. is today were acquired.