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  2. Indian commerce with early English colonists and the early ...

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    The development of the fur trade led to the establishment of firm social and political boundaries between tribes as well as the establishment of coalitions and confederacies between tribes. Popular confederations that came into existence in the 1630s are the Iroquois nation, the Pontiacs of 1760 , and the coalition of Algonqian tribes which ...

  3. Nativism in United States politics - Wikipedia

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    Nativists and labor unions also argued for literacy tests, arguing that it would stop illiterate immigrants from Southern or Eastern Europe. In the 1970s, the immigration reductionism movement, which exists to this day, was formed. In the 2010s, the Tea Party Movement, which split off from the Republican Party, brought a new form of nativism.

  4. History of U.S. foreign policy, 1801–1829 - Wikipedia

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    A separate treaty with the Russian Empire established the southern border of Russian America and opened Russian ports to U.S. trade. In 1819, the United States and the Kingdom of Spain agreed to the Adams–Onís Treaty, through which Spain transferred control of Florida to the United States. Numerous Latin American countries gained ...

  5. Timeline of international trade - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.

  6. Nativism (politics) - Wikipedia

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    According to Cas Mudde, a University of Georgia professor, nativism is a largely American notion that is rarely debated in Western Europe or Canada; the word originated with mid-19th-century political parties in the United States, most notably the Know Nothing party, which saw Catholic immigration from nations such as Germany and Ireland as a serious threat to native-born Protestant Americans. [4]

  7. First wave of European colonization - Wikipedia

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    Spain and Portugal sought the utilization of foreign and indigenous peoples during post colonial contact with the New World. The Portuguese and Spanish use of slavery in Latin America was seen as a lucrative business which ultimately led to internal and external development in gaining economic influence at any cost.

  8. Native American trade - Wikipedia

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    Native American trade refers to trade among the Indigenous people of North America and with European settlers. Trade with Europeans began before the colonial period, continuing through the 19th century and declining around 1937. The term Native American Trade in this context describes the people involved in the trade.

  9. History of U.S. foreign policy, 1776–1801 - Wikipedia

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    In the spring of 1800, the delegation sent by Adams began negotiating with the French delegation, led by Joseph Bonaparte. [ 132 ] The war came to a close in September when both parties signed the Convention of 1800 , but the French refused to recognize the abdication of the Treaty of Alliance of 1778 , which had created a Franco-American ...