
The Louisiana Purchase: Not a Purchase
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Napoleon and the Haitian Revolution
The French foot and the English foot are different, so Napoleon was actually 511 feet tall. Anyone under seven feet tall was a pretty small person to Jefferson. The Haitian Revolution made Haiti the first black run country outside of Africa in the world because there was a slave revolt. And when that stopped, it had a really huge effect on the economy.
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