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The Battle of Yorktown marks the junction of French and American troops (led by Washington) against British rule.
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Oregon was called a "pioneers' paradise" because <em>the w</em><span><em>eather was always sunny, there were no diseases, the trees grew thick, and there was plenty of land for free farms.
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<span>Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle drew attention to atrocious practices in the meat packing industry. His expose of unsanitary conditions and food that was dangerous to eat, and the public outcry arising from it, led President Roosevelt to have the food industry investigated. In June of 1906 he signed into law both the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.</span>
As Europeans expanded their market reach into the colonial sphere, they devised a new economic policy to ensure the colonies’ profitability. The philosophy of mercantilism shaped European perceptions of wealth from the 1500s to the late 1700s. Mercantilism held that only a limited amount of wealth, as measured in gold and silver bullion, existed in the world. In order to gain power, nations had to amass wealth by mining these precious raw materials from their colonial possessions. Mercantilists did not believe in free trade, arguing instead that the nation should control trade to create wealth and to enhance state power. In this view, colonies existed to strengthen the colonizing nation.
Colonial mercantilism, a set of protectionist policies designed to benefit the colonizing nation, relied on several factors:
Colonies rich in raw materials
Cheap labor
Colonial loyalty to the home government
Control of the shipping trade
