Europeans started to enslave Africans.
They started to use slaves instead of indentured servants, because the investment was better. Indentured servants only served for a few years, and then were granted freedom, while slaves were purchased and used for their entire lives. The investment of a slave was better than an indentured servant.
The Russo-Japanese War developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea and Manchuria. In 1898 Russia had pressured China into granting it a lease for the strategically important port of Port Arthur (now Lüshun), at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, in southern Manchuria.
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A. He was moody and short tempered and once had his nose broken in a fight with a fellow student.
<span>Many Americans believed that their economy was being purposefully harmed by British action. Added to this they felt that the British threatened their expansion into the west as forts on US land attempted to support and be at peace with Native Americans. A final issue was impressment, where the British forced young American sailors into their own royal navy.</span>
