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...duce of the mid-west travelled to reach market. To get the vital region in American hands, President Thomas Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with Na ...leans where a new statehouse was waiting. Built at a cost of $100,000, the American gothic design of the building was very much in vogue. Mark Twain said about

...d British for control of North America, and Pontiac's Rebellion , a Native American uprising (1763-66). ...ich forbade settlement west of the Appalachians. Daniel Boone , the famous American frontiersman, first came to Kentucky in 1767; he returned in 1769 and spent

| nationality= American ...ntinental Army]] to victory over the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] (1775–1783).