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People who searched for food and planted food on their own lands.
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Native Americans had different ways of living due to the environment.
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Widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, and diseases between the Old World and New World.
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The geographical features of the rich farmlands, and numerous rivers let the colonists prosper.
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New England - Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
Mid-Atlantic - New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
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Jamestown was the first permanent English Settlement in America. The unfamiliar climate, brackish water supply and lack of food, and prolong droughts led to May diseases and deaths.
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Tobacco made Jamestown flourish. The fertile and very rich soil allowed Jamestown to sell many tobacco.
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The winter was harsh and with lack of housing and other comforts led to many deaths. Natives taught the Pilgrims how to fish and plant corn to survive.
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Wars fought against Natives for territory and fur.
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A war between Natives and English colonists for land rights.
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Slaughtered Native Americans in an effort to take their lands
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The expansion of tobacco took more land from the Native Americans.
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Founded in North America by William Penn
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The Salem Witch Trial was only in Massachusetts. The signs of being a witch may have been caused by the plants in the area. Massachusetts weather made a fugue called ergot grow in rye. The symptoms of eating this fugus are the same as the signs of being a witch.
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The French fought to secure there lands in the Mississippi River area.
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British and French fought for control of eastern North Amercia
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Pontiac urged his people to rise up against the British for their land.
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A line that forbade all settlements to be made post a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Because of their location during the American Revolution, 2,500 American soldiers were killed beacause of the harsh winter.
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The government of the U.S. would measure, divide, and distribute the land acquired from Great Britain north and west of the Ohio River at the end of the American Revolution.
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Created the first organized territory. It separated lands from the Appalachian Mountains.
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A term for the attitude during the 19th century period of American expansion that the U.S was destined to stretch from coast to coast.
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The purchase of the Louisiana territory from France to the US.
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Regulated slavery in the country's western terrioties.
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The removal of Native Americans from their lands. They were relocated to other parts of the US.
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Built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic to the Great Lakes.
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The colonists were able to get South Carolina from the Natives. The natives were moved from their lands.
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Gold was found in California so many Amercians rushed to call to search for gold.
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Defused a 4-year political confronation between slave states and free state. Texas surrendered New Mexico. California was now a free state..
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An agreement between the U.S and mexico in which the U.S payed Mexico for a part of their land.
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Allowed male settlers in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether they would allow slavery in their territories.
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A war between the Union (North) and Confederates (South) for the rights to own slaves or not.
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Granted 160 ancres to any family that would agree to farm for 5 years.
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Divided the 10 southern states into small military district.
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Secretary of state William H Sewarrd purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 milliion
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Miners began setting in Sioux Indian tribes land.
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Hawaii was only a territory until it became a state in 1959
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Because of this, the US gained control of the Philippines.
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Armed conflict between the US and the Filipino. The US no longer owned the Philipines because of this war.
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WWII impacted agriculture since there was a higher demand for food.
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A canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean that provided a safer routes to the U.S.
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Great Plains region suffered from drought. Dust storms forced people to leave for California.
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The TVA brought jobs to rural south and created dams to prevent flooding on farmlands. Because of the TVA, it helped regulate hydroelectricty.
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Helped harness water and hydroelectricity
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Name given to South and West states because of the hot climate. People migrated to the South for air conditioning.
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Since the US didn't help build it. Egypt siezed control of the Suez Canal, cuttiing off oil to the US
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A government organization that worked to protect the environment
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During the 21th century the United States had problems with the Middle East regarding Oil. This was an issue because if the United States was busy fighting countries that supplied them with oil, they wouldn't be able to use it in America.
