The settlers that came afterwards didn't have it much better, lack of land, the threat of Indian attacks, and the explosive situation with the French, made it hard for the settlers to build a life for themselves. ... Rice became a major good for exportation reaching 80 million pounds by the time the revolutionary war began. ... The land was very harsh however to those who came after most of the land had been taken up the only land that was available was controlled by the French, and Indians or it was fallow, and wouldn't grow fertile crops. ...

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They were not Christian Indians and lived as whites at Ghadenhutten. ... When the French and English War started they tried to stay natural but then became a French-Indian warrior and were out to kill whites, while the Iroguois sided with the English. ... By the end of1763, no white or Indian men remained alive in Wyoming Valley. ... He was known as the most Indian killer. ... When the French surrendered in 1763 but that didn't stop Tom from wanting revenge. ...

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This triangular trade produced much wealth for the Spanish as well as the English, Dutch, French and Portuguese. ... The French and English also began building forts to protect their own holdings from each other. The Seven Years" War, or the French and Indian War as it is known in America, was an attempt by the French and English to strengthen their own positions on three separate continents. ... Today America is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth and is about to enter into war. ...

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It wasn't until years later that anyone understood that the "Indians" he encountered weren't from India after all. ... Five European powers--Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy colonized almost the entire continent by 1900. ... France attempted to annex Algeria in the 1830s, but made little effort to understand the Muslim Berbers who lived there. ... The French finally withdrew from the colony in 1962 after the Algerians voted 6,000,000 to 16,000 to ask the French to leave. ... A civil war is a war within a nation, as opposed to a war with other nations. ...

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Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. ... But when Napoleon forced Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France Jefferson got worried. ... Jackson, like Jefferson, came into the spotlight during a time of war. The public enlightened Jefferson during the revolution and Jackson during the war of 1812. ... Jackson neglected his boundaries though taking force to two Spanish posts and killing two Indian chiefs without ceremony. ...

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Portuguese, Dutch, British, Spanish and French traders all took part in the slave trade. ... Slavery took place in the mid 1800's (World Book,21) and before and during the civil war (Compton's, 7). ... The African's helped cultivate land and fought with native American's in the Seminole Indian wars. ...

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The main goals in the expansion were to Christianize the Indians, to gain trading power, to expand their empire, and of course, to gain the great mineral wealth of the Americans. ... The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both males and females, as with us, were brought up to it, and trained in the arts of war- (54). ...

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Hector John de Crevcoeur was born in France in the middle of the eighteenth century. ... He then traveled to Canada, served for a while with the French in their war against the English, and later passed over into the United States, to become a well-known American. ... He came back to France, and while he was there, his home was burnt down and his wife became a fugitive in the American War of Independence. ... The simple fact of not wanting to be recognized for a masterpiece shows how much his life developed from France to America. ... He fled to New York instead of going back to France in...

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The Northern Indians were said to guard and hold on to their land very aggressively, as well the French settlements to the north of Quebec, along with the natural borders of the sea and the mountains. ... The people in the South were more independent and relied heavily on slave labor and the slave trade, therefore understandably defending their rights to the slave trade prior to the Civil War. ...

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The African Slave Trade I. Background a. Early history of European trade with Africa b. The beginning of the Salve Trade II. Middle Passage c. Living arrangements d. Death II. Slaves in the New World a. The marketing of slaves b. Treatment of slaves (corporal punishmen...

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