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Transcontinental trek: two hundred years ago this month, the Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Pacific Ocean, having trekked across what is now the United States.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
Early American history was so full of epic events benefiting the American people that most citizens of the new nation thought Providence was guiding their destiny. It seemed impossible that, as colonists, the Americans would defeat the forces of the mighty British Empire. It seemed impossible that the former colonists would forge a union of independent states that would endure. It seemed impossible that the new nation would double her size with the stroke of a pen. Yet, all these things came to pass.
Thomas Jefferson was the one responsible for the dramatic increase in the size of the new nation through the purchase of nearly a million square miles of territory ...
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