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Timeline
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Vermont becomes First New State to Join the US
- Vermont
- Vermont asked to join the thirteen colonies
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Kentucky Becomes a State
- Kentucky -First, Kentucky became part of Virginia.Then, it became its own state.
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The Louisiana Purchase Treaty was Signed
- Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon Bonaparte
- The Cabildo, Louisiana
- France Gave the Land to America in turn for money
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Lewis and Clark Expedition Departs
- Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Thomas Jefferson bought some new land and wanted Lewis and Clark to explore it.
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Pike Unknowingly Entered Spanish Territories
-Zebulon Pike and his men
-Pikes Peak, Colorado
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Battle of Callabee Creek
- Georgia Volunteers
- Macon County, Alabama
- The Americans Won
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Andrew Jackson Leads Americans to Victory During the Battle of New Orleans
- Andrew Jackson
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jackson was a major general in the War of 1812
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Schoolcraft Begins his Expedition
- Henry Schoolcraft
- The MIssisssippi River
- To Find the River's Headwaters
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Gold Rush
- Miners
- Sutter’s Mill, California
- Was discovered by James Marshall
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Should Enslavement be Allowed in Kansas?
- The Citizens voted, but there was still fighting
- Kansas
