Robert Livingston and James Monroe were the pair of men responsible for the purchasing of Louisiana.
In 1801, Thomas Jefferson sent Livingston (then secretary of foreign affairs) to France, with the goal of purchasing approximately 827,000 square miles of land of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans.
Due to his reputation as an honest man as well as a great negotiator, Monroe was appointed by Thomas Jefferson to help Livingston in the negotiations with France that would lead the acquisition of Louisiana to the United States.
The ERA, or Equal Rights Amendment, was ratified o<span>n </span><span>March 22, 1972.
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The Ottoman Empire was forced to give up all its territories except for Turkey, who overthrew the sultan in 1923 and Mustafa Kemal became president. He was president of the first republic in Southwest Asia and wanted to modernize Turkey.
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