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828,000 square miles of land purchased from Napoleon the leader of France, by Thomas Jefferson in 1803. Jefferson paid $15 million for the land.
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This Missouri Compromise proposed by Henry Clay in 1820 was to maintain sectional balance and allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while Maine entered free.
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In 1835 and 1838 thousands of Cherokees and other Indians were forcefully marched to Oklahoma territory under the supervision of the U.S. army. Thousands died from sickness and starvation along the way. This was the plan of U.S so they could get rid of the Natives.
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The Civil War was a series of battles fought between the Northern Union and the Southern Confederation. It ended in 1865 and was won by the Union, allowing slavery to be abolished.
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Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone. The Telephone changed the world.
