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French Revolutionary Wars
The wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Russia, and several other monarchies. -
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of French domination over most of continental Europe. -
Louisiana Purchase
The United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
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Black War
A period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania -
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War of 1812
A conflict fought between the United States and its indigenous allies on one side, and the United Kingdom, its dependent colonies in North America, indigenous allies, and Spain on the other -
Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier
Invented the first sewing machine. -
Indian Removal Act
The first major step to relocate American Indians came when Congress passed, and President Andrew Jackson signed this act. -
Samual Morse
Invented Morse code a way of communicating. -
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Mexican-American War
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Treaty of Guadelupe
The treaty settled the Mexican-American War, the United States gained more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of land, expanding U.S. territory by about one-third. -
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American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confederacy. The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican–American War