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Louisiana Purchase / Lewis and Term Paper
Pages:6 (1720 words)
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Subject:History
Topic:Louisiana Purchase
Document Type:Term Paper
Document:#34194963
The last few years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century was perhaps the first boom period of the country. The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition provided the means for the United States to expand its land from coast to coast, and the technological innovations of the Industrial era provided the means to utilize that expansion to eventually become the most powerful nation the world.
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Coordinator and Expedition Committee Member
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Works Cited
Hooker, Richard. The Industrial Revolution. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ENLIGHT/INDUSTRY.htm
Eric Foner on the role of westward expansion. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3099.html
Indian removal: 1814-1858. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html
Kipp, Kevin. "Historical Background of the Louisiana Purchase." Expedition
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