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• Directory:Angola, Indiana
  ...grew as its public square became a trading place for American Indians and farmers. Evidence. of the Indians' presence can be found in many area fields, which
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• Directory:Nebraska
  ...nee were defeated in 1859, and by 1880 war with the Sioux and other Native American resistance was over. With the coming of the railroads, cow towns, such as O ...ge, ruthlessly opposed the encroachment of the farmers, but the persistent farmers won. Many conservationists believe that much of the land that was plowed un
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...armed violence was directed against New Yorkers until the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, when the British became the major threat and common ene === The American Revolution and Independent Vermont ===
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• Directory:Wisconsin
  ...settlers in the East was bringing the Ottawa, the Huron, and other Native American tribes into Wisconsin, where they in turn displaced the older inhabitants, === British-American Struggles ===
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• Directory:Indiana
  Native American Indians migrated west into Indiana as European settlers took their lands du ...merican land. Their victory in 1779 of Fort Sackville in Vincennes, led to American control of the northwest. After the war, Indiana became part of the Northwe
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• Directory:Oklahoma
  ...form the present state boundaries. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s forced many farmers to move west as migrant laborers. Oklahoma City is the capital and the larg === The Native American Heritage ===
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• Directory:Minnesota
  Native American Sioux and Chippewa Indians lived in Minnesota when French fur-traders lande ...rs. This new land stimulates the lumber industry in Minnesota. Loggers and farmers settled the first small towns of Minnesota, including St. Paul, St. Anthony
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• Directory:North Dakota
  The first farmers in the region of whom there is definite knowledge were Native Americans of ...its post at Fort Union, which was established in 1828, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company gradually gained monopolistic control for a time over the regio
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• Directory:Get the Facts on Herbal Supplements/Noni
  ...arms project employs over 15 Native Hawaiians and serves 70 community noni farmers on Oahu and the Big Island.<a href="http://hawaii.gov/hdoa/add/soq/companie
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• Directory:Ohio
  === Prehistory to the American Revolution === ...n the extermination of the Erie. In addition to the Iroquois, other Native American tribes soon prominent in the region were the Miami, the Shawnee, and the Ot
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• Directory:Texas
  ...s were established in the area; but the Comanche, Apache, and other Native American tribes resented their encroachment, and the settlements did not flourish. === American Expeditions and Settlement ===
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• Directory:Allstate
  Major insurance competitors include [[State Farm Insurance|State Farm]], [[Farmers Insurance Group]], [[Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company|Nationwide]], [[Pr ...ls.com/phoenix/stories/2008/07/07/daily50.html Phoenix Business Journal]: "American Association of Justice ranks Allstate No. 1 among nation's worst insurers"<
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• Directory:Illinois
  ...l 1778 when George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War hero, and his band of American colonists captured Fort Kaskaskia. The Illinois country became a possession ...e 1800s, unrest swept throughout the nation's farmers and factory workers. Farmers were paying high prices for land and farm equipment while receiving low pri
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• Directory:South Carolina
  ...e. The interior or upcountry, meanwhile, was being slowly settled by small farmers and traders, who pushed the dwindling tribes of Native Americans to the wes By the time of the American Revolution, South Carolina was one of the richest colonies in America. Its
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...e Europeans explored the Delaware area, it was inhabited by several Native American groups of the Delaware—notably the Nanticoke in the south and the Minqua ...of the town of Lewes. However, within a year it was destroyed by a Native American attack. This attack notwithstanding, the Native Americans were generally fr
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• True Leaf Market
  ...eaf Market company information]</ref> by Demetrios Agathangelides, a Greek-American plant geneticist at Utah State University who was doing research on plant v *'''Farmers''' earn 3 points for every dollar spent, and spend over $1,000 in the cours
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...d British for control of North America, and Pontiac's Rebellion , a Native American uprising (1763-66). ...ich forbade settlement west of the Appalachians. Daniel Boone , the famous American frontiersman, first came to Kentucky in 1767; he returned in 1769 and spent
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...hird of the total community). English retaliation effectively ended Native American resistance, except for a final uprising of the Confederacy in 1644. However ...entured servants or apprentices, but many of them became freemen and small farmers. In 1641 there were also about 250 Africans (the first had arrived in 1619
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• Directory:New Hampshire
  ...aqua and the Merrimack, naming it New Hampshire. Portsmouth was founded by farmers and fishermen in 1630. ...western boundary of New Hampshire, the dispute flared up again during the American Revolution and was not settled until Vermont became a state.
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• Directory:Kansas
  ...buffalo, raised corn, beans and squash. There were many reasons why Native American nations came to this land. Much like the Kansas we know today, they saw gre ...ght, reaching an apex in 1867 when nearly 130 settlers were killed. Native American-Settler skirmishes waned in the latter half of the 1860's.
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