11-05-2002, 09:29 PM
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Originally posted by antryg:
You are correct Donut. Some areas were just part of American expansion into areas that no other country claimed. {Since the Indian tribes living there already possessed no valid claim.} I believe that at least part of Idaho was acquired in the Louisiana purchase. The Spanish American War also played a part.
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Were Idaho and Iowa not part of the Louisiana purchase? I havent looked at the map of that in a long time....time to go searching on the web [img]smile.gif[/img]
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