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patent was applied October 28 1793. This event was very important it changed life but it cause more slaves to work to get the cotton.
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Congress felt uninformed and wanted Adams to release all the letters the American diplomats had sent.
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The United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France.
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OREGON TREATY - The treaty provided for joint control of that land for ten years.
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It was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. And defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
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The United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.
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The best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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Gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east to territory that was west of the Mississippi River.
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Colonel James Bowie and Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis prepared to defend the Alamo from the Mexicans who were going to take it back.
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Slavery was against Mexican law, but Americans brought slaves to Texas. Many American settlers and Tejanos, or Mexicans who lived in Texas, wanted to break away from Mexico.
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the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.
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he Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845–1848. During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
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The Mexican-American War, or Mexican War, was fought between Mexico and the United States from 1846 to 1848.
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The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850
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Was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
