History and government of the United States, for evening schools . HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 89. United States in 1803 owned up to the time of its purchase. The Louisiana provincecomprised nearly one million square miles, and cost $15,000, region included inits limits the area now oc-cupied by the States ofLouisiana, Arkansas, Mis-souri, Iowa, North Dakota,South Dakota, Nebraska,Kansas, and large partsof Minnesota, Montana,Wyoming, Colorado, andOklahoma. Embargo Act. — Because of the great Napoleonic wars then raging between England and France, the President andCongress placed upon all Am

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History and government of the United States, for evening schools . HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 89. United States in 1803 owned up to the time of its purchase. The Louisiana provincecomprised nearly one million square miles, and cost $15,000, region included inits limits the area now oc-cupied by the States ofLouisiana, Arkansas, Mis-souri, Iowa, North Dakota,South Dakota, Nebraska,Kansas, and large partsof Minnesota, Montana,Wyoming, Colorado, andOklahoma. Embargo Act. — Because of the great Napoleonic wars then raging between England and France, the President andCongress placed upon all American shipping an embargothat forbade our ships from clearing port for foreign lands, toprevent their seizure by war vessels of the great embargo nearly ruined our commerce. The War with the Pirate States. — The first of the foreignwars of this country w^as with pirates who were protected bythe half-civilized governments of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, andTripoli, the so-called Barbary States of northern Africa border-ing on the jMediterranean Sea. They favored piracy as a m

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