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Lousiana Purchase
It was the aquisition by the U.S. in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Lousiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs plus cancellation debts worth 18 million francs, for a total sum of 15 million dollars for the Lousiana territory.
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Missouri Compromise
It was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the U.S. Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
It was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 white people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards.
- It was a social event because it involved mostly people rebeling against slavery. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina.
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Cherokee Indian Removal
In fall of 1835, civilian officials of the US War Department to enumerate Cherokees residing in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tenesse. Counting 16, 5422 Cherokees, 201 inter-married whites, and 1592 slaves.
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Mexican American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War, the Invasion of Mexico, the U.S. Intervention, or the United States War Against Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
- It was a social event, because the Americans and Mexicans were all people.
