The french became upset when English colonists began settling in the Ohio River Valley. In 1753 the French in Canada began building forts in the Valley. The French wanted to protect the land from the British. This resulted in the British attacking in self defense. They thought of it as the zfrench preparing to attack. This became known as the French and Indian War in the colonies. Both sides British and French were accompanied by Indian allies
Bluntly...No we live in a country with sets of rules and documents to keep us "<u>sane and civil</u>"
Answer: The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
The
Transatlantic slave trade radically impaired Africa's potential to
develop economically and maintain its social and political stability.
The arrival of Europeans on the West African Coast and their
establishment of slave ports in various parts of the continent triggered
a continuous process of exploitation of Africa's human resources,
labor, and commodities. This exploitative commerce influenced the
African political and religious aristocracies, the warrior classes and
the biracial elite, who made small gains from the slave trade, to
participate in the oppression of their own people. The Europeans, on the
other hand, greatly benefited from the Atlantic trade, since it allowed
them to amass the raw materials that fed the Industrial Revolution to
the detriment of African societies whose capacity to transform their
modes of production into a viable entrepreneurial economy was severely
halted.
