Polygamy is the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time. This practice can be traced back thousands of years. This manner of marriage has been conducted by many of the ancient Israelites in Biblical times. It was not uncommon to have hundreds of wives. Monogamy, w...

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One of the major reasons for territorial expansion was the American's will to conquer what ever they could. This confidence came from the ideal of "Manifest destiny." Coined by a New York paper in 1845 the term described American's "God given right" to take what they wanted, and that Providence ha...

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