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Chapter?30: The Americas in the Age of Independence Chapter Outline The building of American states The United States: westward expansion and civil war By 1820s all adult white men could vote and hold office Rapid westward expansion after the revolution Britain ceded all lands east of theMississippi River?to United States after the revolution 1803, United States purchased France's Louisiana Territory, west to the Rocky Mountains By 1840s, coast-to-coast expansion was claimed as the manifest destiny of the United States Conflict with indigenous peoples followed westward expansion 1830, Indian Removal Act forced eastern natives to move west of the Mississippi Thousands died on the "Trail of Tears" to Oklahoma Stiff resistance to expansion: Battle ofLittle Big Horn, 1876, Sioux victory