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The desire of a nation to deploy direct control over another nation is noted to as imperialism <em>(from the same root word as 'empire')</em>, and has transpired throughout history, but most visibly in the closing half of the 19th century.
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The wast ward expantion affected the geography because of the agiculture and the native americans land being taken away and forced to move.
I believed we are Representative b/c we have people elect representatives to run the government. So we are a representative democracy.
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Pioneer farmers, or homesteaders, began settling in California, Oregon, and other parts of the West during the early 1800's. After the Civil War, however, western farming expanded greatly. Homesteaders, mostly white, quickly populated the Great Plains from 1870 to 1890
