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civilization to "backward" peoples. The cultural motive for European imperialism in the 1800s was the spread of economic opportunity.
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On April 30, 1803, America expanded from seventeen states to a country almost doubled that size for the price of fifteen million dollars. That equates to about three cents per acre. About 828,000 square miles of western territory that became six states and parts of nine additional present day states.
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