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landowners. President Thomas Jefferson this period, Native Americans lost their
bought the Louisiana Territory from homelands as settlers and pioneers moved
France in 1803. Known as the Louisiana west. Many tribes were forced to live
Purchase, the new lands doubled the size elsewhere, and some native cultures were
of the United States. Free or inexpensive nearly wiped out.
land was there for the taking,
and it wasn’t long before
thousands of people,
from inside and outside

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