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Daniel Boone was an explorer and pioneer . In 1769 he explored the Native American trail through the mountains . The trail was called warriors’ path which led him through the Cumberland gap . He did this after he rounded up men to go on the path and cut down trees . This path is now called the wilderness road which became a highway for the people . More than 100000 people had traveled the highway between the years of 1775 - 1790
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The nation good roads to travel on and ship goods on . So to build the roads many private companies would and would make it a toll road that the people that were trading on the road had to pay . Most of these road were made of crushed up rocks . When Ohio finally became a state in 1803 they needed a highway to go west . So congress finally approved the funds for the road after five years . The work on the road began in 1811 and the road was not finally opened until 1818 .
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Spain started losing power elsewhere in it empire . In 1810 a priest named Miguel hidalgo led a rebellion in Mexico . His rebellion was against racial equality and the redistribution of the land . But then Spain captured this guy and Mexico was given it independence thanks to Spain .
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In 1816 James Monroe ran for presidential election and faced no serious opposition. Which made the federalist weakened by doubts of their loyalty during the war . Which made them barely survive as a party. Monroe ended up winning the election . In 1817 his last message to congress was about growing nationalism and strong loyalty to the nation and asked government to guide trade . The war of 1812 made it clear that Jefferson’s idea of a limited government could not meet the idea of the peoples .
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In 1819 the Missouri territory asked the congress for admission as a state . A lot of Missouri settlers came from Kentucky and Tennessee because they allowed slavery. A lot of them in congress thought slavery ought to be illegal. Then the House of Representatives pass it but the senate stopped it . Right now there was 11 free and 11 slave states and congress didn't want that to change.
