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- A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S acquired approximately 872,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
- This allowed America the spread the boundaries of its nation, but also had a terrible impact on Native Americans who has made homes in that land.
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- The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain, primarily over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy, as well as disagreements over trade, western expansion, and Native American policy
- Britain effectively won the War of 1812 by successfully defending its North American colonies
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- The Missouri Compromise further defined the essence of slavery in America
- Admitted Missouri as a slave and Maine as a free state which kept the balance the same
- Defined that underneath the boundary of Missouri would be considered a slave state if they wished, but all states above should be free
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- The canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east
- This created a transcontinental connection within America, where the western states had direct access to the Atlantic Ocean
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- The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century
- It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada
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- The Nat Turner Rebellion was the largest slave uprising, and although it failed, it sent a strong message to southern farmers
- 60 white people and 100 innocent slaves who tried to stop the rebellion died As a result of this rebellion, many states had new, stricter slave codes
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- The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos, now commonly referred to as the "birthplace of Texas"
- This document focused on the rights of citizens to "life" and "liberty" but with an emphasis on the "property of the citizen"
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- War between the United States and Mexico from April 18460-February 1848
- Mexican unwillingness to recognize Texas independence, the desire of Texans for statehood, and American desire for westward expansion
- The war extended the United States to the Pacific Ocean, and provided a bounty of ports, minerals, and natural resources for a growing country
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- A series of measures proposed by U.S. Senator Henry Clay and passed by the U.S. Congress
- To settle several issues connected to slavery and avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.
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- Civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy formed by states that has seceded from the Union
- The cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing