For most of its early history, the United States played a small role in world affairs. But in the late 1800s, some of America's leaders called for the nation to join the ranks of the world's major powers. As a result, the United States began to acquire influence and territories outside its continental borders. The country was abandoning isolationism and emerging as a new power on the global stage.
They thought they were going to lose their slaves.
Gas prices more than tripled
Tobacco continued to be the cash crop of the Virginia and of Carolinas throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
