HIST 2057 : Exam 2 3
Document Summary
Europeans in the late 19th century africa is being colonized by the english, America at this point was not really dealing with the rest of the world post civil war. Liberia was a state in africa that had very close ties with the us and. American freedmen were allowed to go there if they decided to leave the states: the american emigration society began this idea mainly because of the idea that whites and blacks would never be able to coexist. The states had an interest to maintain independence of liberia because they did not want it to come under any european rule: berlin conference 1884-1885 called by otto von bismarck. Americans were really only worried about continental america like they always had, they wanted to expand to the west. When lewis and clark initially explored the plains they called it the great.
