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The United States purchased the Louisana Territory from France for $ 15 million dollars. This territory includes moder-day Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, most of Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and large parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, Texas and Louisiana.
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New Jersey became the last northern state to abolish slavery.
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Thomas Jefferson signed a bill stating that slave trade was banned in Africa starting January 1st, 1808.
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United States declared war on Great Britian because of the Chesapeake Leonard affair.
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Great Britian agreed to give up northwest territories to United States.
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News that the war was over travled slowly across the United States. Andrew Jackson led his arm and defeated the British arm in New Orleans, winning the war.
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Andrew Jackson purchased this piece of land from the Chickasaw Indians. It covers from the Mississippi River to the Ohio River and Tennesse River.
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In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line
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The Monroe Doctrine was a US policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823, which stated that efforts by European countries to colonize land or otherwise interfere in the Americas would be viewed by the United States as acts of aggression.
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This dispute began over the annextion of Texas. Mexico considered Texas to be part of its terrioty even though the Texas Revolution occured years earlier.
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This treaty ended the Mexican-American War. Mexico ceded New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas and western Colorado for $15 million from the United States.
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The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws. In 1849 California asked to become a free slave state which made north and south unbalenced. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C, government was established in Utah and New Mexico, and the boundary was decided between Texas and New Mexico. California became a free slave state.
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James Gadsen bought land from Mexico. A strip from south of the Gila River and in southwestern New Mexico and southern Arizona for $10 million dollars.
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This nullified Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery in the territory north of the 36' 30' lattitude.
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South Carolina was the first southern state to secede from the Union in 1860.
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Months after the succesion of South Carolina six other southern states followed. They were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Togther the formed the Confederate States of America. They elected Jefferson Davis as their President.
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The Civil War began in Charleston, South Carolina at a Union fort called Fort Sumter. The Union soldiers refused to leave this fort, so the Confederates fired cannons at the fort on April 12, l861.
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Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the United States.
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This abolished all slavery in the United States.
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The Civil War eneded with the surrender of the Confederates. Both armies had roughly the same number of deaths except the south was destroyed.
