A traditional story about travels or adventures can be Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. It speaks of a group of pirates in search of a lost treasure and certainly includes travels and adventures.
he Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. This region had not been part of the areas east of the Rio Grande which had been claimed by the Republic of Texas, though the Texas annexation resolution two years earlier had not specified the southern and western boundary of the new State of Texas. The Mexican Cession (529,000 sq. miles) was the third largest acquisition of territory in US history. The largest was the Louisiana Purchase, with some 827,000 sq. miles, followed by the acquisition of Alaska (about 586,000 sq. miles).
During the interwar period, the United States adopted an 'isolation' policy. The rationale behind this policy was to avoid being sucked into another European war, as the US had done in WW1. The policy was ultimately abandoned with the rise of Hitler and the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.
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