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The biggest land purchase to date on the North American continent, purchased by Thomas Jefferson.
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The first war for the United States of America against Great Britain.
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A solution to the issue of whether or not Missouri would be inducted into the Union as a slave state or a free state, this bill legalized slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line and outlawed it to the north.
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Declared to European nations that both North and South America were off limits to colonization.
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The Presidency of Andrew Jackson was important to the political scheme of the nation going forward.
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Manifest Destiny begins to become an idea that pushes the American borders all the way to the west coast.
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South Carolina unanimously decides to leave the Union and begins a chain reaction separating the North from the South.
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Fought between the North and the South over the right of slavery and certain other small issues.