Learned how to grow olives and grapes, and also borrowed the Greek alphabet
Stephen Douglas hoped when pushing the Kansas-Nebraska act that
the everything would be settled democratically, without violence by the settler
that would be impartial but unfortunately this was at the same time the fatal
flaw of the act. People misunderstood the act which led to anger by the
southerners and the subsequent retaliation by the northerners as well as the
creation of two governments in Kansas one that was elected on fraud and other
that was not legal.
The Native Americans helped the French. The English were stealing the Native American's land and the Native American's felt that wasn't fair so they put their efforts and trust in the French. That is why it was called the French and Indian War because the French and the the Indians were allies and they fought together.
resources of the Prairies were sent to Eastern Canada which sells them to the world for large profits
The US did not want Soviet communism to spread.