<span>The cession of the Philippines involved a payment of $20 million from the United States to Spain. The treaty was signed on December 10, 1898, and ended the Spanish–American War. The Treaty of Paris came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the documents of ratification were exchanged.</span>
C Mississippian peoples cultivated corn on Mississippi Valley floodplains and created pottery and immense earthworks
The native populations living along the Mississippi Valley used clay from the floodplains to create potter and the ground provided good soil for corn production. What they are most known for are the earthworks or mounds that they built for burial and artistic works to represent their gods. Cahokia was a large mound site near current day St. Louis and demonstrates the skill and size of these mounds.
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