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With the mouth of the Mississippi once in American hands it was a physical impossibility in any way to retard the westward movement of the men who were settling Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “With the mouth of the Mississippi once in American hands it was a physical impossibility in any way to retard the…”
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Roosevelt asserts that control of the Mississippi River was crucial for American expansion into the West.
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