Louisiana Purchase is formalized

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On This Day With Lewis and Clark
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We The People
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KnowLA: Lousiana Purchase

American author Willa Cather born

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's "My Antonia"
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We The People
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American Masters: Willa Cather
WSPWH: Willa Cather
American Collection: Song of the Lark

President Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Lesson 3: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery

Lewis & Clark set out for Pacific Coast

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Mapping the Past
On This Day With Lewis and Clark
Related Links: 
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Discovering Lewis and Clark

Abraham Lincoln elected to first term as President

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Lesson 4: Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery
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We The People
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Abraham Lincoln at the Crossroads

Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World

Lewis and Clark return from the first trip to the U.S. Pacific Coast

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On This Day With Lewis and Clark
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We The People
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Discovering Lewis and Clark

John Smith becomes President of the Jamestown Colony

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Jamestown at 400

Northern Pacific Railroad is completed

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I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Ken Burns The National Parks: Yellowstone

Famed Lincoln–Douglas debates begin

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 3: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery
Lesson 4: Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery
Related Links: 
Teaching American History: Lincoln–Douglas Debates

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