In 1803, Jefferson bought Louisiana from France for $15 million dollars and doubled the size of America by 828,000 square miles. Fear of the potential threat that the French posed while living in the United States, also wanting the port at New Orleans, and wanting the fertile land that Louisiana had to offer, is what drove Jefferson to do the possibly unconstitutional purchase with France. ... Before the Spanish American War, there was the Indian Removal Act which was was a major impact on Native Americans and the United States' Manifest Destiny. ... Even though Jackson is the one that si...

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However, in 1876 after several brutal wars, the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, and Comanches complied to move to certain areas where whites were prohibited (Greenberg 33). After more than a decade of vile treatment by whites, Indians of California and Nevada agreed to settle on reservations (Document 46). Though the barbarous mistreatment of Indians had died somewhat, racial discrimination was still evident in the segregation of Indian land and true American land. ... Polk in the war with Mexico, which started in 1846. ... The West was not only a destiny of economic opportunity, but also ...

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In 1784, she joined her husband at his diplomatic post in Paris, and recorded the differences and aspects of French culture in relation to the American. ... With the Civil War, Southerners belittled her as a deserter to her origin while those loyal to the Union spread talks of her disloyalty. ... And while Abigail Adams passed the very year that Mary Lincoln was born, the lives of these very different women show some very similar concerns such as marriage, struggle for female education, meaning of childbirth, the role of religion and also the role that these two women were to assume as first l...

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