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Louisiana Purchase
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U.S. got the better end of the deal when Napoleon sold this land for 15 million with Jefferson taking a big risk
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Barbary Pirates
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pirates that were blackmailing and plundering merchant ships that went to the Mediterranean
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Undeclared Naval War
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the war in which the French were furious with Jay’s Treaty and began to seize American merchant vessels
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War of 1812
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war when we went to war with Britain and lacked a strong navy and dealt with impressments
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Eli Whitney
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created the cotton gin
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Orders of Council
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name of the term in which orders closed ports under French continental control to foreign shipping unless vessels first stopped at a British port
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Force Bill
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name of the bill in which President A. Jackson authorized the use fo whatever force necessary to execute laws
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