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    were put in place, but did it bring peace between the northern and southern territories? The Manifest Destiny began when President Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana in 1803 from the French government. The Louisiana Purchase included the area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from New Orleans to Canada. This was a major purchase…

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    sharing the Oregon Territory and was willing to fight for it, Which gave him the slogan “54 40 or fight”. Once he won the election, Polk declared war on Great Britain. The Americans outnumbered Britain by the ratio 6-1. In June 1846, Britain surrendered, conflict was avoided and gave the Oregon Territory to the Americans. If James K. Polk didn’t run for president the Oregon Territory would still be shared with Britain because Polk’s strongest proposal was expanding the U.S Territory, he was…

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    The movement known as the Manifest Destiny is based on the ideology that America was destined by God to expand their territory over immense areas. Although the settlers might not had wanted to take this certain approach, their movement was mainly an aggressive one for the first half of the ninetieth century. Americans had expanded their boundaries through conflict and treaties. The Manifest Destiny also involved the calamitous removal of inhabitants from their homes. The significance of these…

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    Ying Zheng had a large ambition to rule the land, he was not satisfy just be the king of Qin kingdom, so he keep conquered territories. During that time, there are six other coexisting kingdoms. The leader of each kingdom all proclaimed himself king. Every king wanted to achieve bigger power, have large territory, it depend whether they have the strength. So there always have small fights between kingdoms. Freud in his Civilization and Its Discontents stated, "The physically stronger man would…

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    the territory of the fallen Ottoman Empire. They controlled this territory under the mandate system. Under this system, the territories were under the control of a sovereign state, in this case Britain and France, because they were not ready to run themselves. Furthermore, this system was supposed to take into account the needs and wants of the territories being mandated. Although this seemed like a positive of the system, it was not implemented when Britain and France divided the territories…

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    The increasing number of military campaigns and increase size of the controlled territories, brought Rome to ne practice to elect four praetors one year and six the next. Furthermore, gave more freedom in the decision-making processes to the office holders for the more remote areas of the Roman territories. Nevertheless, those steps were not able to fully answer the newly raised needs of consuls, generals, praetors, governors and other office…

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    When William C. C. Claiborne was appointed as the governor of the Territory of Orleans of Louisiana in 1804, he had quite the resume. He had previously served as a member of Tennessee’s House of Representatives, as a judge of Tennessee’s Supreme Court, and as a governor of the Mississippi Territory. Claiborne can, therefore, be referred to as a Founding Father of the states of Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Claiborne had met and befriended the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson,…

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    about an increase in sectionalism and conflict, it also allowed for the expansion of territory and fueled movement into the west. With people moving west into the newly claimed territory, there was controversy whether the territories would become free or slave states. According to the Missouri Compromise, all territory North of the 36˚ 30’ line would be admitted as…

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    newly added territories to the United States. The cartoonist relies…

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    tombstones, and the person who died 's name. Another norms is that your protect your territory no matter what. Another one is that you are in the M.S. 13 gang for life, if you leave the gang they will find you and they will kill you. If there is a business inside the territory of M.S.13 then you have to pay them interest, so they will protect your business and you from other rival gangs that may try to take that territory away from M.S. 13. The gang recruits younger kids into their gang so that…

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