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On 1803 the Louisiana was purchased by the usa for 15 million dollars and 828000 square miles which was very cheap at the time.

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On this year lewis and clark had started there journey they went across the united states to see everything.

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On 1820 missouri had turned into a slave state and maine had been into a free state which caused some troble in the south.

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On this year california ha been admitted to the union as a free state and the mexican cession had been divided into two territories which was utah and new mexico

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On 1854 the kansas-nebraska act happened which resulted in each territory to decide in slavery or no slavery which caused trouble for the whole country.

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by 1840 up to 7 million americans had been living in the west following a trail by lewis and clark and most of the people had moved from the east so they can live better.

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On 1854 a was had happend which was caused by territory and slaves this war killed 55 people.

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On 1846 of the westward expansion England had sighned the oregon territory giving it up to the united states.

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On 1848 the gold rush had begun this event happened in california because gold nuggets had been discovered in the sacramento valley which made people go to find it.

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On 1783 the westward expansion had started which was first off with the 13 colonies in the east then the treaty of paris was sighned which ended the war for the Us which gave the US some land

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On 1820 there was a event named the land act which was something that ended the ability to purchase the US land and reduced the number of acres that ohions purchased.

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The oregon trail happend on this year and it was people traveling to the west for the next 20 years in wagons and it had 300000 people involved.

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This year was very important because it led to a war which was caused by texas turning into a US state which used to be Mexico's land.

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During these years was the mexican american war which started because of texas but was over the territory and rights america had won the war but paid mexico 15million dollars for more land.