The Fur Trade
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Its was a Trade that started in the West Indies going trough place and place to trade goods such as Fur. They traded to get African Americans for the southern colonies in America. and it went through the Atlantic Ocean
American merchants complained that the British were keeping Americans out of the West Indies and other British markets that they could make money from.
British agents from Canada armed native Americans in the west.
The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged Americans to move out west because it offered 160 acres of undeveloped land in the west to all American citizens FOR FREE.It was first comes first serve so people rushed over to get the free land before it was all gone.
When the First Tanscontinental railroad was built, all the smoke came to where the Native Americans lived. They called the train the 'Iron Horse".