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President Thomas Jefferson guided a splendid piece of foreign diplomacy through the U.S. Senate. After the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was mad, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the great rock mountains
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It was a land deal between the United States and France. The U.S. acquired approzimately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars.
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The United States took on the greatest naval power in the world. Causes of the war included British attemts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy's impressment of AMerican seamen and America's desire to expnad it's territory.
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Expansion westward seemed perfectly natural to many americans in the mid-nineteenth century.
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American military officer and an early explorer and mapmaker of the American West, who ws one of the prinipals figures in opening up the region to settlement and was instrumental in the U.S. conquest and development of California.
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He left home on a military expedition during the French and Indian War. He faced Indian resistance. He died in Femme Osage Creek, Missouri.
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A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seed from cotton fiber.
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Indian policy caused the President little political trouble because his primary supporters were from the southern and western states and generally favored a plan to remove all the Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River.
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Clashes between official forces and groups of colonists.
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The conflict between the United States and Mexican had roots in the annexation of Texas and the westward thrust of American settlers.
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Nine covered wagons left Springfield, Illinois on the 2500 mile journey to California.
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Both from upstat New york. Althought the Whitmans ministered to both, most of the white children, died.
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Arguably one of the most significant events to shape American History during the first half of the 19th century.
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Most of the encoutrers with Native Americans were sinple business transactions.
