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Most civilizations have practiced some sort of slavery. There were many different countries that traded slaveys among each other and even had routes on how to get the slave's from one country to the next. -
As the europeans thrived across the world they bought with them plants, animals and diseases that changed live and landscapes on both sides of the world. These exchanges between the two sides of world became known as the Columbian Exchange. -
Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator spearheaded his country's exploration of Africa and the Atlantic in the 1400s. This allowed the Portuguese mariners to be able to navigate an eastward route to Africa. -
It was the first Anglo-Powhatan war which resulted from the English colonists that intruded onto the Powhatan. Also, from the English colonists refusing to follow cultural protocol by giving gifts -
With the exchanging that occurred across the world it bought life changing diseases. Epidemics claimed the lives of 75 percent of the native people.
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Creating wealth for the Empire remained a primary goal and England attempted to gain better control of trade with the American colonies. The mercantilist policies by which it tired to achieve the control became know as the Navigation Act. -
Pennsylvania became the geographic center of British Colonia America. Charles the second gave the largest proprietary colony in the Americas on William Penn to Pay a debt he owed to the Penn family. -
In England the Whigs worked to depose of James and they succeeded. Then, this revolution spilled into the colonies where Bostonians overthrew the government. -
The British soldiers and the Bostonians conflict turned deadly in 1770. A crowd of Bostonians started throwing things at British soldiers which turned into a big fight. -
A group of Son's of Liberty dumped all the tea into the harbor from three ships. This costed around one million dollars in todays dollars.
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The continental Congress met in Philadelphia and agreed to cut ties with Great Britain. This was setting America free from Great Britain. -
An uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and economic conditions. The people fought against the government. -
Sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power. -
Many Americans opposed the 1787 constitution because it was heavy on the centralized power. Therefor, the congress approved the bill of rights that listed ten amendments to protect the citizens. -
The United States bought the Louisiana territory from France for 15 million dollars. This enhance the work for framers with all the land bought.
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With the British restriction trade of the U.S and America' desire to expand its territory. The United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, the Great Britain -
Congress allowed Missouri and Maine to enter the union. Maine being a free state and Missouri being a slave state. -
The Untied States started a war with Mexico because they wanted the Rio Grande to be the border between them. Mexico saw this as the United States invading their nation. -
The North and the South fought over the freedom of the slaves.
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A network of northern White and free Black people who helped people of color escapes and provide safe housing and passage from South.