Events from the year 1845 in the United States. January 1 – The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed. January 29 – "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).

The United States of America in 1845. In 1845, the territorial realm of the United States included the following areas: The Original Thirteen Colonies: The eastern seaboard, where the original thirteen British colonies had been established and eventually became the first states of …

The first US attempts to annex Texas were blocked by Congress, with free state politicians worried about Texas' slave state status. Nonetheless popular opinion in both countries strongly favored annexation and Texas was finally admitted to the Union in 1845.

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This 1845 French map shows an independent Texas and the southwest still as Mexican property. It is from the Atlas Universel Illustré. The map is titled Amérique Septentrionale. The map measures about 7 x 8 inches, while the printed area is about 17 x 11 inches.

An unrecorded edition of the superb Henry Tanner map of North America, issued in 1845 as President Polk was bringing disputes over Oregon and Texas to a boil.

An attractive c. 1845 map of North and Central America published in William and Alexander Keith Johnston’s

This is Tanner's rare 1845 map of North America showing the Republic of Texas at its fullest. The map cover all of North America, from the Arctic Circle, Greenland, and Alaska, to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the West Indies Islands.

History Map of the United States 1815-1845 illustrating Westward Expansion, American Forts with year in which it was established, Adams-Onis Treaty Line of 1819.

The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849 —also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson —involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.