Development of the frontier from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the 1890s
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Passed by Congress to establish laws in the Northwest territory.
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Passed by the 7th Congress of the united State, the Enabling Act set the rules and procedures for adding new states.
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Purchase of the Western territory from the French.
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Expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the western area bought in the Louisiana Purchase.
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Lewis and Clark come back home with treasure troves of new information.
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Signed by President Andrew Jackson to relocate Indian tribes to unsettled lands in exchange for the area the tribes currently lived within the state borders.
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Gold is discovered in California.
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Signed by President Abraham Lincoln to encourage Western migration by promising 160 acres of land to settlers in exchange for a small filing fee.
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Fences cage in the open space and make it harder to move cattle.