How Did America Become So Big? 🇺🇸 | The Complete History

How did the United States go from just 13 British colonies to one of the largest and most influential countries in the world? This documentary reads the receipts: what each stage of America's growth cost, who paid, and who profited. From the maps of 1492 and the first colonies, through revolution and the Louisiana Purchase, Texas and the war with Mexico, gold and a country split in two, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Panama Canal - five centuries of land, deals and consequences, ending on the eve of the First World War. History in Frames.