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Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803 during Jefferson's presidency. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq miles
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition was a federally funded venture to explore the North American West. The expedition’s principal objective was to survey the Missouri and Columbia rivers, locating routes that would connect the continental interior to the Pacific Ocean
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Louisiana enters the Union as 18th State
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Conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. -
Missouri Compromise is a measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for the admission of Missouri as the 24th state in 1821. It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs was formed on March 11, 1824, by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, who created the agency as a division within his department, without authorization from the United States Congress. He appointed McKenney as the first head of the office
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War between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The warin which U.S. forces were consistently victorious resulted in the United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.
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The Statue of Liberty was given to the U.S. by France
