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President Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from France.
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In 1812 their was another war between Great Britain and America. D.C. was burned. Great Britain invaded the Great Lakes area and New Orleans.
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President Jackson defeated Great Britain during the attack of New Orleans. The war ended in 1815.
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Wars between resident Indians and Americans as Americans began to take other the Indian lands and force the Indians onto reservations.
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47° parallel was a limit to Spain's expansion North and 49° parallel was a limit to Britain's expansion South.
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Slavery begins in earnest.
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Slavery was prohibited North of the South border of Missouri.
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People move into Texas, break off from Mexico, call themselves Lone Star Republic
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Mexico gained its independence from Spain
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U.S.A. welcomes Texas as a slave state. At this time, Texas claims land north of the Rio Grande, when really the agreed-upon boundary is the Nueces River, much farther north.
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The U.S., headed by President James K. Polk, provoke Mexicans into a war in which the U.S. barge into Mexican territory and slaughter millions of innocents, for the sole purpose of having America strectch from coast to coast. Antislavery people oppose war because they believe the new land acquired will become slave states.
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The U.S. Mexico War ends with the Americans the victors. The battles were bloody and the casualties on the American side were nothing compared to the ones on the Mexican side, where many innocent people had been senselessly slaughtered. The U.S. paid Mexico $15 million to cover the losses, and to feel generous.
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The treaty signed between Mexico and America agreed that Mexico would relinquish all of New Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, parts of some other surrounding states-to-be, and the long-disputed-over Texas, in return for $15 million from America.
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Slavery ended.
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Seven states secede from the Union and form the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis elected temporary president of the Confederacy. The Union and Confederacy go to war. Over time, more and more states secede from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union at Appomattox on April 9. Six days later, President Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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The last of the free Indians are herded onto reservations, their lives and cultures stolen.
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America owns large areas of land in Cuba for the importation of sugar, Spain rules Cuba and is criticizing America, so they get involved in war, fighting over the independence of Cuba. America wins, the war along with ownership of the Puerto Rico and Guam, and an opportunity to buy the Philippines from Spain fro $20 million.
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New Mexico and Arizona, some of the last states out of the once Mexican territory won in the war, are oficially added as states.
