08-16-2019, 12:10 PM
(08-16-2019, 12:05 PM)Dill Wrote: Did we buy the land ceded from Mexico, or the Phillipines, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Panama Canal?
Yup.
$15m + $3.25m in assumed claims for the Mexican Cession (It was a lot more money in 1848.)
Phillipines/PR/Guam, I can find that they purchased it, but I can't find the exact numbers on hand.
The US never technically "owned" the Panama Canal, but had basically an endless lease. They paid $10m up front, and $250k/yr until they gave the Canal back to Panama in 1999.
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