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The purchase of the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. This land was bought from the French for $15 million.
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Lewis and Clark set out to explore the new land obtained in the Louisiana Purchase.
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America declared war on Britain for interfering with America's sailors and for interfering with America's Westward Expansion.
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Began constructing the Baltimore and Ohio road.
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A war that broke out between America and Mexico due to America trying to obtain new land in the southwest.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as presidant.
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11 Southern States seceded from the Union due to the unfair election of Abraham Lincoln and differences in views of slavery. This forms the Confederacy.
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The war that broke out between the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy. The reason for this war was mainly slavery but the Confederacy also claimed that the Union was acting unconstitutional, which may have been true. This war ended with the Emancipation Proclamation.