The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
a meeting between European officials in which the distribution of Africa to European control was decided. sought to bring an end to scramble for africa. it was convened by king leopold II of belgium
The basic cause of the Indian Wars between 1860 and 1890 was the fact that the Americans wanted the land that the Indians had and the resources that might be in and on that land. The earliest wars were brought on to some degree by the Civil War, but the basic cause was still the American desire for more land and resources.
