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Louisiana Purchase
The biggest land purchase to date on the North American continent, purchased by Thomas Jefferson. -
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War of 1812
The first war for the United States of America against Great Britain. -
Missouri Compromise
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. -
Monroe Doctrine
Declared to European nations that both North and South America were off limits to colonization. -
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Andrew Jackson Presidency
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson was important to the political scheme of the nation going forward. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny begins to become an idea that pushes the American borders all the way to the west coast. -
South Carolina leaves the Union
South Carolina unanimously decides to leave the Union and begins a chain reaction separating the North from the South. -
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The Civil War
Fought between the North and the South over the right of slavery and certain other small issues.