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Eli Witney, the inventor of the cotton gin. The cotton gin is a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.
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The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798. The XYZ Affair lead to the Quasi-War.
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led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the territory acquired. Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France
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The Adams- Onis Treaty 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 Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830
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The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution
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The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
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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
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The Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state
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Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.
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the Treaty of 1818 set the boundary between the United States and British North America
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officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic
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California became a state on September 9, 1850
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The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased
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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.
