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Thomas Jefferson purchased the 828,000 mile land west of the mississippi from the French.
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The document that started the war against Britain was signed.
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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
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The Santa Fe Trail was used in the 19th century through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Congress declered war on Mexico over the contrevresial topic of who owns Texas.
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On this day the Califorinian Gold Rush began to sweep over the nation causing people to head west.
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