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Some of the negative impacts that are associated with colonization include; degradation of natural resources, capitalist, urbanization, introduction of foreign diseases to livestock and humans. Change of the social systems of living. Nevertheless, colonialism too impacted positively on the economies and social systems
The Comstock Lode
The Comstock Lode is similar to the California Gold Rush, because of the golden discoveries they found (gold, of course). The Comstock Lode happened in Montana, Colorado, and Arizona, and all of this chunks of gold made this nation (United Sates) one of the most wealthiest! The gold and silver's value was 1 billion 2.5 million dollars in gold and silver, that's a lot of gold and silver, ain't it? This is one of the oldest mineral strikes, also called "The Granddaddy of them all."
(I made a paragraph of my own, but my source is: www.truewestmagazine.com/ten-events-that-shaped-the-west/
We elect senators and representatives for the House. They basically make up what the people who elected them wants, but some are corrupt so they don't really listen to the people. They mainly listen to the people who fund their campaigns. What we do have are the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Amendments to protect our rights such as forcing the person we elected to do what we want, because if they don't we can "fire" them and elect new ones. (petition)