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Spanish rulers gave Christopher Columbus money to support his voyage across the Alantic ocean. His accomplishment was getting to the Caribbean land which lead to many more voyages. The arrival of Europeans had serious effects on Native Americans speading diseases and making them work in harsh conditions.
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Native American, West African, and european people lived in complex societies. many of theses groups survived by hunting and farming. Farming developed civilization.
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Spanish conquered Native American civilization and took large amounts of gold and sliver from their land and settled in the region the became Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas
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Beggining in the early 1600s, the English established colonies along the Eastern coast of North America. Colonies struggled until settlers began to farm. Wealth begin when trade grew with other groups of people such as Native Americans.
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Colonies created rural society based on farming. Most people worked on small farms growing tabacco, rice, and indigo. Plantations dominated society and the economy, plantation owners used enslaved Africans as workers.
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Conflicts between Great Britian and the American colonists escalated, until the colonists finally declared their independence.
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American victories reversed British advances during the American Revolutionary War.
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American leaders created the Constitution as a blueprint of government for the United States.
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During the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, the country grew in both size and prestige.
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Through settlement and war, the United States greatly expanded its boundries during the mid-1800s.
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The cattle industry boomed in the late 1800s, as the culture of the Plains Indians declined.
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During a time of growing sectionalisim, Andrew Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new era of popular democracy.
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Settlers on the Great Plains tranformed the land despite great hardships.
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Disagreements over slavery heightened regional tensions and led to the break of the Union
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Shortly after the nation's Southern states seceded form the Union, war began between the North and South
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After four years of bloody fighting, the Union wore down the Confereracy and won the war.
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After the Civil War, the nation embarked on a period known as Reconstruction. during which attempts were made to readmit the South to the Union.
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Throughout the mid-19th century, men and women who aw problems with American society embarked on a widespread effort to solve them.
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Inventions and economic developements in the early 19th century helped transform American society.
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At the end of the 19th century, natural resources, creative ideas, and growing markets fueled an industrial boom.
