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The Louisiana Purchase, made 200 years ago this month, nearly doubled the size of the United States. ... All or parts of 15 Western states would eventually be carved from its nearly 830,000 square miles, which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
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Jim Crow laws were laws that legalized racial segregation after the Civil War. They were used in Southern States to deny colored people equal rights as white people without technically breaking federal laws.
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C. It is the division of powers between a national government and the state governments.
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Britain was up to its shoulders in debt from war. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists, to help pay for the French and Indian War. The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods. They also rioted so to speak, they would tar and feather officials, dump tea into the ocean and eventually go to war with their motherland.
