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Farmers needed the Mississippi River to help grow their crops. France purchased New Orleans, the purchase for 15 million dollars it was double the size of the United States.
http://gatewayno.com/history/LaPurchase.html
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British and France were at war with the United States because they wanted freedom.
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Florida was given to the United States. They set up a boundary between U.S and Spain.
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Missiouri wanted to join union as a slave state. Congress drew a line on 36 degrees and 30 minutes longitude allowing slaverly below the line.
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Created the first model Musket in 1842.
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Journalist John O'Suilvian explains the Manifest Destiny in his own words being the expansion of new territories.
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A trail was built of the 49th parallel ending the joint of the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.sjsapush.com/ch14.php -
Gave up Treaty of Guadalope Hidalgo and it ended Mexican-American War. The States that were included were; California.
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The Fugitive Slave Act required citizens to capture slaves and returned to their owners.
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Simon Legree was a fromer slave was who was freed.
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The Gadsden Purchase was land bought in order to create railroads.
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In 1855 United Sates built railroads.
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John Brown gave slaves weapons in the anti-slave in Kansas-East campign to defense themselves.
http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-110249/In-1859-John-Browns-raid-on-the-Harpers-Ferry-arsenal
