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What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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Early 1800s
1803: America purchased a very large expanse of land covering the central part of the US from France called the Louisiana Purchase.
1812-1815: The War of 1812 was between the United States and England.
1850-1853: Mexican-American War
America wanted a significant piece of land, including modern-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
America offered to buy the land from Mexico, but Mexico did not wish to sell the land.
America began a war against Mexico.
America won the war and obtained these territories.
1862-1865: The Civil War
The Civil War was fought between the North (The Union) and the South (The Confederacy) over the issue of slavery.
The South had an economy based on agriculture, which depended heavily on slaves from Africa.
Abraham Lincoln was the President during the Civil War and is known as the person that saved the Union and freed the slaves.
Lincoln gave a very famous speech known as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves.
Late 1800s
1898: The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and America. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of a US ship in Cuba, leading to US intervention in Cuba's independence from Spain.