Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonists to declare independence.
Reconciling with the south rather than punishing it
Less battles were fought in Texas.
The Dutch bought Manhattan Island in 1626. Hope this helps! :)
The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States and significant to the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlant