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It was a multi-cultural frontier. According to the purchase agreement in 1803, the inhabitants were given "all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens" -- and in the meantime were protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion (the Louisiana Purchase). Indians at the time were ignored citizenship. The westward migration was destroying native life and culture. Protestant missionaries urged Indians to adopt European American religious and social practices. There was this black code that stated that free color people couldn’t conceive themselves to be as equal to whites. There was this widespread religious turmoil in the turn of the century sometimes it was called the second great awakening. The new demands for personal liberty was focused on religion. Federalist often viewed this religious upheaval as a sign of the deterioration of
