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The Land Act of 1804 was U.S. legislation that refined provisions for the purchase of U.S. public land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. At the time, the region was divided into the Indiana Territory and the State of Ohio. The goal of the change was to make migration to the western United States more attractive. Titled An Act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, the act was passed by Congress on March 26, 1804.[1]

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the additional economic hardships brought by the Panic of 1819. The previous Land Act of 1804 still included a minimum purchase (160 acres) too large...

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1804 Haitian massacre

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and the Haitian Declaration of Independence happened on 1 January 1804. From February 1804 until 22 April 1804, squads of soldiers moved from house to...

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District of Louisiana

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States District of Louisiana had two incarnations: first, as a federally administered military district (March 10, 1804 - September 30, 1804); then as an...

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Louisiana Territory

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Arkansas–Louisiana state line). The Eighth Congress of the United States on March 26, 1804, passed legislation entitled "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories...

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Louisiana Purchase

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First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. In return for fifteen million dollars...

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Territory of Orleans

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Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

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"We are to give money of which we have too little for land of which we already have too much." Having been dropped from the 1804 Democratic-Republican...

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Rochdale Canal

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in 1804, but construction work continued for three more years. A 1.5-mile (2.4 km) branch from Heywood to Castleton opened in 1834. As a result of having...

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First Serbian Uprising

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Birinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was an uprising of Serbs in Orašac against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 1804, to 7 October 1813. The uprising began as...

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Mutiny Acts

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Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996

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of legislation make their way through the Scottish parliament; the Land Reform (Scotland) Act and the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act. The Land Reform...

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Organic act

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Act The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 The Organic Act of 1804, with respect to the Territory of Orleans The Michigan Territory Organic Act...

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Caledonian Canal

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commissioners obtained a second act of Parliament, the Caledonian Canal Act 1804 (44 Geo. 3. c. 62) which granted them £50,000 per year of government money, payable...

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Alabama real estate bubble of the 1810s

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to encourage settlement of the western United States, the Land Act of 1804 permitted the federal government to auction land with standard 25% down payments...

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Action of 5 October 1804

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squadron to intercept it. Bustamante had set sail from Montevideo on 9 August 1804 with four frigates loaded with gold and silver, as well as much other valuable...

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East India Company

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in 1874 under the terms of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act enacted one year earlier, as the Government of India Act had by then rendered it...

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