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Wheat grew well because of the climate.
The imperialists were all for it, thinking that it would help with the American market and the depressed economy from the Panic of 1893. The anti-imperialists argued that it went against our American democracy and was harmful to the territories we were trying to acquire.
European countries began finding trade routes to Asia that avoided Ottoman territory (APEX).
Colonial farmers grew a wide variety of crops depending on where they lived. Popular crops included wheat, corn, barley, oats, tobacco, and rice. The first settlers didn't own slaves, but, by the early 1700s, it was the slaves who worked the fields of large plantations.
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North to prosper the idea that the plans are reuniting the nation without resolving the fundamental conflicts at the root of the division between North and South the idea that the conflicts between the North and the South were too big to solve and the regions should be left alone to resolve their own problems.
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