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The first step in westward expansion. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the nation.
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80,000 migrate to California in search of gold. A huge step in the expansion of the nation.
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The Compromise of 1850 admitted several new states to the country, thus adding to the frontier for the people of the nation to explore.
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Frederick Edwin Church painted "Home by the Lake" in this year.
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Not an exact date....this is pretty much a practice timetoast anyway.
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Mexico sells the United States 29,640 square miles of territory south of the Gila River.
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Jasper Francis Cropsey painted "The Backwoods of America" in this year.
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President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act in an attempt to draw people onto the frontier.
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Worthington Whittredge painted "Twilight on the Planes..." around this time.
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