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The United States have had many chances at expansion. What if it had gone though with them? This time line will try to show it. I need all the help I could get ( this is my first timeline) Thanks.
1844: James K Polk will be remeberd as the man who gave America her empire. He had just won the Presidental Election useing the the rally cry for Oregon for the North and Texas for the South. President Tyler had just annex the Republic of Texas and he now had to prove to the Mexicans it was U.S soil. But first he had to deal with the Oregon issue.
1846: The British Foreign Secretary Aberdeen was worry about the Oregon issue. The Americans wanted all the land to the South of Russian Alaska. Althought the British Goverment had no intreast in the area it could not just hand the land to the Americans. But than at the moment he recived a note from the American office building. He almost cried out with joy when her read it. He sent a note back accepting the offer.
The offer was
-The United States would get the whole of Oregon to the 54'40 mark
-The United States and the British Empire would enter a trade and military alliance.
The Treaty of 1846 was signed on June 15th 1846.
This gave the Americans a free hand in Latin America while the British had a new Allie.