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Eli whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the united states
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the oregon trail served as a natural corridor as the united states moved from the eastern half of the continent toward the west coast.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the united states and france.
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jefferson hoped that lewis and clark would find a water route linking to the columbia and missouri rivers.
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The war of 1812, the united states took on the greatest naval power in the world, great britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young countrys future.
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John was an amercian militsry officer, explorer, and politican who became the first candidate of teh anti-slavery republician party.
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Daniel Boone was an American explorer and frontiersman
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the indian-removal process continued, in 1836 the federal government drove the creeks from thier land.
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American colonists in Texas secured the independence of that area from Mexico and subsequently established a republic
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manifest destiny was the widely held belief in the united states that amercian settlers destined to expland throughout the continent.
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a group of nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west. Led by brothers Jacob and George Donner, the group attempted to take a new and supposedly shorter route to California
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the mexican war marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.
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Whitmans played an important role in opening the Oregon Trail and left a tragic legacy that would continue to haunt relations between whites and Indians for decades after their deaths.
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One of the migrations stimulated by the discovery of gold was the internal westward movement of Americans from the eastern states who hoped to make fortunes in California.
