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Currier & Ives: The Rocky Mountains: Emigrants Crossing the Plains
Proclamation of 1763: boundary line
American frontier
Northwest Territory 1785–87
Treaty of Greenville
American frontier; Kentucky
Whiskey Rebellion
United States: 1783–1812
American frontier; Northwest Territory
American frontier
The impact of the Louisiana Purchase on the U.S.
Learn how the U.S. Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance to outline settlement of the Northwest Territory
Hear William Jennings Bryan deliver his “Cross of Gold” speech at the Democratic National Convention
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