Here ’s a sweet crash - course lesson — in enliven gif form — showing how the United States expand and took shape over the course of its history .
The gif was put together by Redditorwtfjen . The map tracks a act of important turning point in U.S. expanding upon and compression , from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the appropriation of Texas less than 45 years later to the Civil War and the acclivity of the Confederacy during the 1860s . The final piece of the puzzle was inserted in 1959 when Hawaii became an official state .
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