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louisiana purchase territories had been acquired through federal executive action, followed by republican legislative authorization in under president thomas jefferson . [ ] prior to its purchase in , the governments of spain and france had sanctioned slavery in the region. in , louisiana, a major cotton
government. [ ] in the years after the war of , the region, now known as missouri territory , experienced rapid settlement, led by slaveholding planters. [ ] agriculturally, the land in the lower reaches of the missouri river, from which that new state would be formed, had no prospects as a major cotton...
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