In 1665 the colony changed ownership and is now know as New York City.
Answer:
Wallace's main argument is that he cannot but feel that these actions (bomb-testing) must make it look to the rest of the world as if the U.S. was only paying lip service to peace at the conference table.
One factor was barbed wire. As farmers and ranchers wisened up, they used the wire to fence in their cattle, destroying the use of cowboys, and taking away one aspect of the "wide open west".
Herds of cattle took over the plains and destroyed the grass. In 1883 t big drought struck and water streams dried up and prairie fires grazed. Also the barbed wire and the natural disasters. People wanted to be able to mark their property.
