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The size of the United States instantly doubled when president Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase getting 827.000 acres.

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In 1805, President Jefferson sent explorers Meriwether Lewis and Willam Clark to explore past the area west to the Mississippi river and write down what they found.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

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The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. Letting people have more access to goods.

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Missouri wanted to be a slave state but that would make it un balanced and Maine was made a free state.

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1843: Great Migration via the Oregon Trail

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1843: Great Migration via the Oregon Trail

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in 1843 over 1000 people tried to travel the Oregon trail in a wagon going thru rocky mountains and hard ship traveling the 2000 mile trail.

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Texas was made a state in 1845 although the formal transfer of government did not take place until February 19, 1846. Then Congress passed a joint resolution in favor of annexing Texas, which was approved by voters in the then-republic, now state.

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Completing a treacherous thousand-mile exodus, the Mormons left their settlement in Illinois and headed west in search of a new homeland.

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The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. The gold rush continued, peaking in 1852 then declining until it ended in 1857.

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The area of California was never organized as a territory, but was administered from 1848 to statehood by a federal military authority.