The idea of settling the American coastline was put into action when Queen Elizabeth granted a charter for Roanoke Colony to Sir Walter Raleigh. Yet due to poor relations with the natives, negative geographical timing, and ineffective connections with the mother country from foreign wars, the colonists of this first-ever English American settlement were doomed for failure. A map of the Roanoke area by John White.

Tension between North and South. The Civil War, North vs. We are not one people. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable. New York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley, 1854.

This scene was a very common one during The Panic of.

Thomas Jefferson-Expansion and Development of America. I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past. Next to Before the Purchase.