France's influence in North America was tied to the fur trade -- they set up trading posts in Canada and around the Great Lakes, and maintained relationships with the native Indians.<span> </span>Meanwhile, British colonists settled along the Atlantic coast -- pushing the American Indians further inward.<span> </span>In the 1750's, France and Britain were both building empires, and came to blows over the land between their American settlements -- the Ohio River Valley.<span> </span><span>However, the Indians also called this land home, and they would play a valuable role in the war by tipping the balance of power in favor of one of the European </span>
Traveling along the Underground Railroad was<span> a long a perilous journey for fugitive</span>slaves<span> to reach their freedom. Runaway </span>slaves<span> had to </span>travel<span> great distances, many times </span>on<span> foot, </span>in<span> a short amount of time. </span>They did<span> this with little or no food and no protection from the </span>slave<span> catchers chasing them.
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So you know how they had that whole Ferguson riot and all of that, well its kinda like this, it was always there but because the public saw the negative it made an uproar and no one really knew the truth. he was jay walking, the cop that stopped him just had a call to were he had to perform CPR on a baby which didn't make it through and he was verbally aggressive, but because of them looking from the outside it looked worse than it really was.
Answer:Sinking of American merchant ships
Explanation:In early 1917 Berlin forced the issue. Its declared decision on 31 January 1917 to target neutral shipping in a designated war-zone became the immediate cause of the entry of the United States into the war.
Very long story short, farming and sugar, as well as a port to china, east india and asia. and the islands were a prime place for a navel base.