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Following the Louisiana Purchase, were French residents of the territories granted automatic US citizenship, or were they treated as (involuntary) immigrants? Were existing land holdings legally recognized by the US, or were records lost/ignored in favor of new claims by people moving West?

by /u/EternalNewGuy in /r/AskHistorians

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