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During The Colonization Era

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During the colonization era many “old world” empires were coming to what is now known as the united states to expanded their nations and find more resources for the wealthy class. They found that there was lots of different resources they could use for different reasons like, animals for fur and food, many trees to use to build house and a ton of open land to own. This brought more and more people over to the United States to also be apart of this new world. They soon realized that they needed to find easier ways to use these resources. This started the scientific revolution, people began to study and explore the environment to see what they could use and how, this brought about new modern ideas and inventions to make using the land eaiser.
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