America Almost Went to War Over a Pig

The United States did not just grow: it was bought, traded and bargained into shape, one deal at a time. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:29 $15 Million Doubled the Country 1:22 The Country That Paid to Join 2:36 One Dead Pig, Almost a War 3:49 Florida Traded for a Line 5:03 Alaska at Two Cents an Acre 6:03 The Capital Gave Land Back 7:12 How Illinois Grabbed Chicago 8:20 When Texas Reached Wyoming 9:32 The Bloodless War Over Maine 10:45 Half of Mexico in One Treaty 11:56 The Triangle Pennsylvania Bought 13:10 The Last Land America Bought Sources: • Intro: https://history.state.gov/milestones/... · https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/ame... • $15 Million Doubled the Country: https://history.state.gov/milestones/... · https://www.archives.gov/milestone-do... • The Country That Paid to Join: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external... · https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremeco... • One Dead Pig, Almost a War: https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/histor... · https://www.historylink.org/File/5724 • Florida Traded for a Line: https://history.state.gov/milestones/... · https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e... • Alaska at Two Cents an Acre: https://history.state.gov/milestones/... · https://www.archives.gov/milestone-do... • The Capital Gave Land Back: https://constitution.congress.gov/bro... · https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/refe... • How Illinois Grabbed Chicago: https://www.historyillinois.org/histo... · https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... • When Texas Reached Wyoming: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/treasures/e... · https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e... • The Bloodless War Over Maine: https://history.state.gov/milestones/... · https://digitalarchives.maine.gov/col... • Half of Mexico in One Treaty: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-do... · https://history.state.gov/milestones/... • The Triangle Pennsylvania Bought: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=84767 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Tr... • The Last Land America Bought: https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/t... · https://history.state.gov/historicald... Footage & images: NASA Blue Marble (BlueMarble_ShadedRelief_Bathymetry), via NASA GIBS (public domain); Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (Sentinel-2 L2A, AWS Open Data) (Copernicus open licence (free, attribution)); Google Noto Emoji (Apache License 2.0); Natural Earth (borders, coastlines) (public domain); flag-icons contributors (MIT); Original: Adolf Soetbeer, Otto von Bismarck Vector: B1mbo, Madden (public domain); Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024 (Sentinel-2 L2A, AWS Open Data) (Copernicus open licence (free, attribution)); © OpenStreetMap contributors (Potomac River centreline; derived coordinates are in shots.json) (Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0); Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024–2025 (Sentinel-2 L2A, AWS Open Data) (Copernicus open licence (free, attribution)); Noto Emoji (region flags) (public domain); Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2023–2024–2025 (Sentinel-2 L2A, AWS Open Data) (Copernicus open licence (free, attribution)). Subscribe to @hmmplained for more "hmm". #geography #maps #usa #hmmplained