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1804-1806, In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson guided a piece of foreign diplomacy through the U.S. Senate: the purchase of Louisiana territory from France.
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The Oregon Trail was a wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
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A war the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights.
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September 26, 1820, American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
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January 8, 1825, American inventor, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer,and was an inventor of a cotton gin.
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1803, was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830
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American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country
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The Texas Revolution began with the battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836
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The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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An armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States
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A group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846
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It was a big event because gold brought lots of money
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Commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand
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American military officer and an early explorer and mapmaker of the American West
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An attempt to return to the days of their glory, many sought salvation in a new mysticism preached by a Paiute shaman called Wovoka.