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The president is allowed to take possession of, and occupy the land given up by the France to the U.S. by the treaty concluded at Paris on the thirteenth day of April.

The Secretary of the Treasury is allowed to pay the French Republic the eleven million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRNTZLg1Vtc9lMjFXO3vQqJR9Q-QIPWqIeWbrrjyFIi-wxi3C6bLauRH-wN12h_Igz_wlXTG0OA2GHA/pub?embedded=true
Brooklynn's contribution

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How did gaining this territory benefit the U.S.?

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How did gaining this territory benefit the U.S.?

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It has increased and filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi.they are preparing to strengthen the ownership by occupying it with their wives and children.
This will decrease the chances of war and open to us new and ever-increasing markets for our products. The safety of New Orleans and of our whole southwestern frontier against aggression, as well as the interests of the whole Union, would be increased by annexing Texas.

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What were he costs of gaining this territory, for the U.S

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What were he costs of gaining this territory, for the U.S

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They would be forced to admit the new states as slave states. Doing so will worsen the problem of unequal representation from slave and free states.

The  laws and the benefits of their republican institutions should be extended over them in the distant regions which they have selected for their homes
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a4_3_1s11.html

~London

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How did U.S. acquisition of this territory impact those who already lived there?

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How did U.S. acquisition of this territory impact those who already lived there?

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They would be citizens of the United States without enjoying personal freedom, protection for property, and above all the privileges of free representative government. Therefore they did not imagine that they would not have those rights.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=261 and https://google.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/f0fdbc3a-87d2-4acd-9bbb-6b80652f371b/

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Was the U.S. justified in acquiring the territory? Why or why not?

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Was the U.S. justified in acquiring the territory? Why or why not?

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How did the original inhabitants resist American expansion?

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How did the original inhabitants resist American expansion?

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Settlers followed the railroads to the western regions of North America, further pushing the Native Americans off of their lands. Buffalo, a main source of survival for the native Americans were hunted for food and sport, decimating the buffalo population and damaging the native American population as well.
google.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/f0fdbc3a-87d2-4acd-9bbb-6b80652f371b/