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2. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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   The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [ 1 ]

3. Neutral Ground (Louisiana) - Wikipedia

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   The Neutral Ground. The Neutral Ground (also known as the Neutral Strip, the Neutral Territory, and the No Man's Land of Louisiana; sometimes anachronistically referred to as the Sabine Free State) was a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.

4. Texas annexation - Wikipedia

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   The Missouri crisis of 1819–1821 sharpened commitments to expansionism among the country's slaveholding interests, when the so-called Thomas proviso established the 36°30' parallel, imposing free-soil and slave-soil futures in the Louisiana Purchase lands. [9]

5. Louisiana Purchase Exposition - Wikipedia

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   The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $509 million in 2023) [ 1 ] were used to finance the event.

6. Louisiana legislation could jeopardize flow of power from Texas

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   Louisiana lawmakers are considering a bill that could block the construction of a long-planned transmission project that would deliver cheap electricity from Texas to Mississippi.

7. Burr conspiracy - Wikipedia

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   Burr's true intentions remain unclear and, as a result, have led to varying theories from historians: some claim that he intended to take parts of Texas and the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase of 1803 for himself, while others believe he intended to try to conquer Mexico to the southwest (then a Royal Spanish colonial province of the Kingdom ...