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brought new crops to US (potatoes)
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Tobacco (bad for soil), sugar, rice, wheat
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Warm, perfect for tobacco (bad for land), sugar, rice
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rocky, cold. ppl whaled, traded (used sea)
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Flat, not lots of rain. Lots of farming and hunting (buffalo, wheat)
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doubled US land. Jefferson bought land from France.
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bc Americans were hunting them too much. badly hurt native american life
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US's "god given" right to expand westwards. eventually spread overseas (Spanish-Amer. War)
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End of MX-Amer. war. added lots of land to the US
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During Gilded Age. Pollution! (railroads, steamships, coal, factories, etc)
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Environmental organization by John Muir
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inspired by The Jungle
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by TR
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called for protection of natural resources
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made by LBJ (great society)
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By Nixon