They bought it from the spanish but the spanish didn't want to give it up at first so the spanish american war started and it wasn't till the americans fought their way all the way to the heart of mexico (mexico city) and bought it from them but it wasn't really a choice it was to end the war and so the americans forced the spaniards to sell to them
They looked down upon the Native Americans because they did not have the Christian religion that the Spanish people practiced
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When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756.
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