Sentences with 'acquisition'

Example sentences and phrases with the word acquisition and other words derived from it.

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« The Missouri territory had been part of the Louisiana Purchase and was the first part of that vast acquisition to apply for statehood. »
« The arrival of Columbus in 1492 accelerated the rivalry between Spain and Portugal, and the two powers competed for dominance through the acquisition of new lands. »
« King Leopold II of Belgium's acquisition of the Congo was larger than England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy combined; it was eighty times larger than Belgium itself. »
« The 1848 treaty with Mexico did not bring domestic peace to the United States. On the contrary, the acquisition of new territories reignited and intensified the debate over the future of slavery in the western territories, widening the growing divide between North and South and leading to the creation of new one-man parties. »

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