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Period: Jul 29, 1492 to
history
new foods changed the diets of people in both places. New foods were introduced so new trade routes were made.Europeans cleared alot of tracts of forrests and introduced farm animals to the new world.After the new world sterted suffering from small desises the Europeans brought African Americans to the new world as slaves. -
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british colonization
British were one of the most important colonizers of the Americas and their American empire came to rival the Spanish American Colonies in military and economic might. Relations between the colonists and natives varied between trade and conflict. Many of the indigenous societies had developed a warrior class and had a long history of warfare. Like the French, trade with the natives was an important part of British colonial policy but the British also heavily promoted settlement and development -
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states in the U.S
in 1816 there were only 19 states and it wouldnt be until 1959 of august, when the last of these great 50 states, hawaii, was founded.it took around 40 years to unite the 50 states we live in today. -
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territory in the U.S
in 1840 the southwestern part of the U.S was ruled by other powers, and the territiorial disagreement over the oregon territory had not been settled. by 1850, the U.S had control of the land from the atlantic ocean to the pacific ocean, this was almost all of what land the U.S has today. -
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spanish american war
when the americans wanted to expand to the points of where the U.S is today, meaning having to take mexican land, the mexicans were not happy about it and that is one cause that started the american mexivan war. another reason is that the americans were trying to take half their country, at that time it was California. -
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bloody kansas
It started when kansas became the state where people could come and vote weather or not the blacks would be free or slave. thousands of people came flooding into kansas to vote.the fighting was between the people who wanted the blacks free and the people who didnt. in the end 55 people were killed just because they had different opinions. -
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presidential reconstruction
in this time period vice president andrew johnson felt that each state government could dicide how they wanted blacks to be treated.this was most of what presidential reconstruction was about. -
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western expansion
it seemed natural to expand westward to people in massachusets in the mid 19th century. they had hoped to build a city upon a hill. America had a obligation to stretch their boundries of their republic to the pacific ocean.