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The Louisiana Purchase was when the French sold the Louisiana terrritory to President Thomas Jefferson.
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It started in may but I don't know exactly when. The Lewis and Clark Expidition was the first expedition to cross western America.
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The primary objective of the expidition was to explore and map the newly bought territory.
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The war of 1812 was a war that lasted two and a half years.
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The war of 1812 is like a "follow up" of the revolutionary war and it made some unclear boundries between the Americans and the British.
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The Missouri Compromise is a failed law passed by the government that tried to keep the south from causing a revolution.
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The Georgia Gold Rush was the second major gold rush in American History.
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Andrew Jackson was actually the first president that had a attempt on his life, it went pretty well... unless you were the assassin, who snuck up behind him with a gun and since it was a rainy day, the gun misfired but the assassin was quick to pull out a second gun which misfired again and at this time Andrew Jackson had noticed and ended up beating his "assassin" half to death.
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The Indian Removal Act was a cruel law that was some reason not carried out until almost a decade after it was passed.
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The actual "Indian Removal" part. This brutal act forced natives from their homes or live by the rules of the state they were in.
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The "Mormon" Trail was the trail that the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints traveled for religous freedom after they were violently forced out of their homes.
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The Mexican-American war was a war that broke out because the U.S. annexed Texas.
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Texas had a revolution in 1836 (I think) but even though Texas supposedly won, Mexico still considered it its territory.
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This happened after the Mexican-American war ended but before the California Gold Rush and I don't know exacly when. The Mexican Cession was when the boundry of Texas became officialy the Rio Grande and when America won California, New Mexico, and most of Arizona.
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The date might not be completly right (I know it was more than a week but less than two weeks after the Mexican-American war ended).
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I know that this happened in 1854 but I don't know exactly when. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law passed by the govornment so that men could vote if the state was a anti-slave or slave state.
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Once the news of gold finally made it to the east at first they didn't believe it, but soon stories of men striking it rich made settilers leave everything behind to go to California.
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The Civil War was anything but civil with it being the bloodiest war in American history.
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The Civil War was like a two way massacre with the new mini-balls that were more accurate and lethal then anything before it and both sides would rush in without taking cover or keeping their heads down and usually die on top of eachother. With medical technoligy not as advanced as the new bullets even more would die in a medical facility than on the field.
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"Mormons" got their nickname from their additional scripture that adds to the traditional bible called the Book of Mormon.
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The Transcontinental Railroad made life easier for Americans allowing you to travel at a blazing twenty miles an hour, you could travel across America in a matter of weeks instead of months.
