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The lousisna Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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The Santa Fe Trail was a transportation route opened by the Spaniards at the end of the 18th century and used afterwards by the Americans in the 19th century, crossing the southwest of North America connecting Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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This action was proposed in 1808 and then completed in 1825. It originally it ran about 363 miles from albany, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, at lake Erie. The purpose of creating the opening was to create a navigable water route from New York City and the atlantic Ocean to Great Lakes.
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Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
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trail was a 2,170 mile route from Missouri to Oregon and California that enabled the migrating of the early pioneers to the western United States. The first emigrants to make the trip were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman who made the trip in 1836. However, the first mass migration did not occur until 1843 when approximately 1000 pioneers made the journey at one time.
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Sutters Mill was founded on the 24th of Janurary in the year 1848, where the founder James W. Marshell found several flakes what appread to be gold in Coloma, California. Then next became an outburst throughout the nation, where it was supposed to be a secret let to about 80,000 immigrants fleeding to California to find their own.
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Oregon Territory stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, encompassing the area including present-day Oregon, Washington, and most of British Columbia.
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