US Expansion, Growth, and Conflict

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The United States experienced a massive expansion in population and geographical scale following the American Revolution. With leaders like President Thomas Jefferson leading the charge to explore the great western wilderness following the Louisiana Purchase, expeditions such as Lewis & Clark helped to map this great terrain. Concepts such as “Manifest Destiny” are explored in our titles Westward Expansion and Pioneers, as is the massive influx of Immigration. Finally, learn about the cause and effect of one of the most definitive periods if U.S. history, the Civil War.

The United States experienced a massive expansion in population and geographical scale following the American Revolution. With leaders like President Thomas Jefferson leading the charge to explore the great western ...
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