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Louisiana Purchase.
Date: 1803
Colonization
Slavery
Indigenous
Black history
Laws/legislation/policy
The U.S. federal government "purchases" land from France. This doubles the size of U.S. territory and brings all Indigenous and enslaved Black people in the new territory under the U.S. rule of law.
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