An American history . 169;Hart, Vol. Ill, No. 185 ; MacMaster, Vol. VI, pp. 251-266; HenryBruce, Samuel Houston, pp. 64-156; Sarah B. Elliott, SamuelHouston, ?p^. 31-72. 3. The Conquest of California: Sparks, pp. 324-335; Josiah Royce,California, pp. 48-150; G.\RRIS0N, Westward Extension, pp. 230-243;John Bidwell, Er^moni and the Conquest of California [The Century,Vol. XIX, pp. 518-525). 4. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty: MacDonald, No. 70 (for text);G. T. Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster, Vol. II, pp. 94-107, 130-172;H. C. Lodge, Daniel Webster, pp. 241-263; Tyler, Vol. II, pp. 216-243; T. H. Be
An American history . 169;Hart, Vol. Ill, No. 185 ; MacMaster, Vol. VI, pp. 251-266; HenryBruce, Samuel Houston, pp. 64-156; Sarah B. Elliott, SamuelHouston, ?p^. 31-72. 3. The Conquest of California: Sparks, pp. 324-335; Josiah Royce,California, pp. 48-150; G.\RRIS0N, Westward Extension, pp. 230-243;John Bidwell, Er^moni and the Conquest of California [The Century,Vol. XIX, pp. 518-525). 4. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty: MacDonald, No. 70 (for text);G. T. Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster, Vol. II, pp. 94-107, 130-172;H. C. Lodge, Daniel Webster, pp. 241-263; Tyler, Vol. II, pp. 216-243; T. H. Benton, Thirty Years View, Vol. II, pp. 420-452;Schouler, Vol. IV, pp. 403-406; Jared Sparks, The Webster-Ashburton Treaty [The Aorth American Review, Vol. LVI, pp. 452 ff.);Foster, pp. 281-286. 5. Henry Clays Letter of 1844 on the Admission of Texas: Hart,Vol. Ill, No. 187 ; Carl Schurz, Henry Clay, Vol. II, pp. 242-268;Garrison, Westward Extension, pp. 135-140; Edward Stanwood,Histoiy of the Presidency, pp. Teias (1845) 38!),rS5 sq. miles Oregon (184(1) 288,089 ? Mexican Cession ) 523,802 Gadsden Purchase (1853) ^ 1,,497 Original Area of X2T,H4i Area uf Louisiana Purchaee 875,025 CHAPTER XIIIthe compromise of 1850 The New Territory An area larger than the original territory ceded to the United 510. The newStates by Great Britain at the close of the War of Independence yfg^^in 1783, and larger than the vast Louisiana region purchasedfrom Napoleon in 1803, was added to the United States be-tween 1845 ^^^ 1848 by the annexation of Texas, the Oregontreaty, and the Mexican cession of California and New Mexico.^The land varied in value. Between the rich cotton areas ofTexas and the smiling valleys of California were the arid plateausand majestic canons of the Rockies. In Oregon fine timberand farm lands were awaiting the settler. The sudden acqui-sition of the Pacific coast, in an unbroken line of more than athousand miles from Puget Sound to San Diego
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