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The United States had alot of chances to expand but didn't. Let's make a timeline of all the possible expansions:

-Falkland Islands (1832)
-Rio Grande (1840) (likely as Satellite)
-More of the Oregon Country (1818-1846)
-Santo Domingo (1856, 1866, 1868, and 1870)
-North Borneo (1865)
-Liberia (1821-1867)
-Spanish/German East Indies/Japanese South Pacific (1898, 1918, 1945)
-Cuba (1870, 1898-1903)
-Quebec (1849-Present)
-Sonora (1853, 1854)
-Dominica (1898)
-Chihuahua (1913)
-Western/German Samoa (1899, 1918-1920)
-Baja California (1853, 1917)
-Taiwan (1945)
-Ryukyu Islands (1945)
-Iwo Jima (1945)
-Newfoundland (1948)
-Greenland (1867-1949)
-Guyana (1980s-Present)
-Albania (1991)
-Haiti (???-Present)


As people post them I'll update the list. Let's also discuss how such expansions would have affected the timeline going on.
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