... them. The Revolution and the Civil War provided America with the most famous of heroes and war quotes. The land brought about a sense of unity because it belonged to everyone. New people were coming into the country and they needed to know the history of their new home, so it was constantly being repeated. The fact that America began with no history, in a world ... the lands in the Western part of America. Each state would send a surveyor out west to divide the land into townships of six square miles. The ordinance gave specific details about how to measure the lines running north and s...

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