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 * How did America grow to cover the width of North America?**

**__Louisiana Purchase__: The way America acquired the Louisiana Purchase was very complacated and envoled alot of politics, power, and suspicion. Thomas Jefferson thought that it was a great idea to do this and by the Louisiana Purchase. And Thomsa Jefferson was a smart man. When the French of Indian war ended France lost all of their possesions in North America. Which was called Louisiana, which included from New Orleans to the Moursri River the n to modern day Montana. But then the treaty of Fountianbeau which stated that everything west of the Mississippi was owed by Spain and everything east of that was owed by the British. Then when the americans won thier freedom from the British in 1783, then the American's needed to get the New Orleans so they could have an easier way to trade and to ship. But there was a promplem because the Spanish had both sides of Mississippi. In 1795 the United States made a treaty with Spain, which was called the Pinckney Treaty, and it gave the United States the right to use the port in New Orleans to help them with shipping and tradeing and stuff. Spanish officles were getting concern because the United States was bringing so many things though the port at New Orleans, and Spain was very eger to get rid of the Lousiaina Territory so they sold it to the French, because it was a waste of finaces and** **the spanish was tired of speanding that money, and the Spanish got a Spanish Kingdom in Italy. This was a trety called San Ildefonso and Nepolion Bonaparte was the guy who finished the treaty with France. Later the Louisiana Purchase was puchased for 5 cents an acre, and this was on of the greatest acheavements that Thomas Jefferson made to help this country. The louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and this really made our country take off. ** **This is where i got the info on The [|Louisiana Purch] ** **[|ase]**

This is where i got the infor on [|The American System]
 * __American System:__ Even in the early days of the United States we had a hard time with the encomic development. But with the help of the "American System" written by Henry Clay. The American system was made after the war of 1812. This is consirded one of the best things to happen to this nation because it ballaced out the industry and agriculture stuff. The American System was made up of 3 parts.**

this is where i got my info on [|The Indian Removal Act]
 * __Indian Removal Act:__ This was a forced removal of the indians from there homes starting in Gorgia. The reason why they were being forced out was because the United States was expanning and the government wanted as [[image:4tear44s.jpg width="226" height="168" align="right"]]much land as possible so they went and removed some indians so other people could live there too. Andrew Jackson wanted to move all of those indians to Olklahoma. When he became more powerful he insisted to the leglatives to pass The Indian Removal Act of 1830. He wanted to insure to the Native Americans that they could still live with happieness and they wont be bothered by** **white people coming to live where they are living. The indian tribes that were sent to Olklahoma were the Choctaws who got (6,953,048 acres), and the Chickisaw who got (4,707,903 acres) and the Cherokees who got (4,420,068). The tribes were also received money for their former lands. As a result many tribes were forced from the homes in Tennessee, Verginia, Geogia, Alabama, and Florida to move to Olklahoma, which many died on the journey to Olklahoma.**

__**War with Mexico:**__ **This war all started becuse there was a conflict with the Americas and the mexicans, about Texas.** **The War with Mexico was a war to receve Texas independance. With winning the war the US also got more land Arizona, New mexico and some of california. The War with Mexico was the War that the great battle of The Almo took place, 1 of 3 major battles that dicided the winner of the war.
 * __Manifest Destiny:__ Manifest Destiny is just a term for the United States getting Texas and California, and Oregan. People belived that America should go and teach everyone about their democricy and to have everyone join, mostly just Native Americans and Eroupians.**

__Oregon Trail:__ The Oregon Trail is a trail where people crossed to go to Oregon and california and other places west. It was a hard and long journey trough the desarts and they had to walk it all. People were tired and some even died while trying to go west. But people would do anything to go west even if it meant they would have to risk their lives to go there.**
 * __Gold Rushes:__ The gold rushes were very important to the expansion of the United States the biggist one was the California Gold Rush. When California had it's gold rush everyone immigrated down to California even people from different countries came to get some gold and this help out the econimie and help out with alot of stuff for the united States. It brought in a lot of money too because people whould stay down in California for a long time and the longer they stayed the more money California got. So that helped everyone out.**