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a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.
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a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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the impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy was the most important for many Americans. The British practice of manning naval ships with 'pressed' men, who were forcibly placed into service, was a common one in English history, dating back
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was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
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a Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition achieve each of its chartered mission objectives exploring the Louisiana Purchase
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This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. Its intent was to damage the economies of the United Kingdom and France. Like its predecessor, the Embargo Act, it was mostly ineffective, and cont
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an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was renamed.
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fought on November 7, 1811, near present-day Lafayette, Indiana between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American warriors
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most notably the new Speaker of the House, Henry Clay of Kentucky, called for war against England and eyed Canada as a possible target of expansion.
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