<span>Westward Expansion and the American Civil War. To many nineteenth century Americans, the expansion of slavery into Western territories caused a great deal of controversy. ... These fears were realized when the expansion of slavery into western territories entered Congressional debates</span>
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What did the Louisiana Purchase achieve for the United States?<span>
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.</span>
"O Little Town of Bethehem" is a familiar Christmas hymn about the birth of Jesus Christ. But the number of Christians in Bethlehem itself has been getting littler and littler as the Christian community there and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa has faced pressures from Islamist movements.
In 1950, about 85% of Bethlehem's residents were Christian. By 2016, the Christian presence in Bethlehem had dropped to 12% -- or only about 11,000 persons.
<span>It was the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965</span>
