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Why were the colonists unable to capture the fertile lands?

rupol2000

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The colonists themselves settled along the East Coast, and are believed to have settled the South with slaves from Africa. But all the fertile lands, optimal for agriculture, which are located on the Great Plains, they could not get. So they got their ass kicked, right?
 
The colonists themselves settled along the East Coast, and are believed to have settled the South with slaves from Africa. But all the fertile lands, optimal for agriculture, which are located on the Great Plains, they could not get. So they got their ass kicked, right?
French and Indian war
Look it up then go away
 
The colonists themselves settled along the East Coast, and are believed to have settled the South with slaves from Africa. But all the fertile lands, optimal for agriculture, which are located on the Great Plains, they could not get. So they got their ass kicked, right?
Cramming and Crushing


Just like the British they imitated, the Deep State in the Northeast discouraged mobility. After the Civil War, when they were forced to allow expansion as an outlet to get rid of the discontented, they reduced the Army to 25,000. The settlers were left unprotected against savages.
 
The colonists themselves settled along the East Coast, and are believed to have settled the South with slaves from Africa. But all the fertile lands, optimal for agriculture, which are located on the Great Plains, they could not get. So they got their ass kicked, right?
Really? History really eludes you doesn't it.......... The Great Plains was called the Great American Desert by the early settlers moving west in the early 1800s. It was an obstacle to get through not settle in, lack of water and poor soil made it unsuitable for farming at the time. It wasn't until the mid 1800s that Winter Wheat was developed that could grow in that region and before that it belonged to the Spanish who sold it to the French who sold it to us in 1803. It was mostly populated by the Plains Indian tribes not all of whom were friendly. The great westward migration didn't happen until after the Civil War which ended in 1865. Prior to the 1800s the fertile Ohio Valley was the longed for prize.
Honestly you should take a few history courses instead of proving just how ignorant you really are.........
 
The colonists themselves settled along the East Coast, and are believed to have settled the South with slaves from Africa. But all the fertile lands, optimal for agriculture, which are located on the Great Plains, they could not get. So they got their ass kicked, right?
The land in the south is very fertile. What are you talking about?
 
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Here are the most fertile regions. Wheat grows well on black soil.
 
The land in the south is very fertile. What are you talking about?
As far as I understand, there are not very good soils. Cotton is grown there. Probably there are a lot of swampy places? Cotton loves moisture.
 
The colonists themselves settled along the East Coast, and are believed to have settled the South with slaves from Africa. But all the fertile lands, optimal for agriculture, which are located on the Great Plains, they could not get. So they got their ass kicked, right?

Hardly.
Who owns those plains today?
 
As far as I understand, there are not very good soils. Cotton is grown there. Probably there are a lot of swampy places? Cotton loves moisture.

And there was a shitload of bottom lands that are far more fertile than the plains are.
These people werent working 2000 acres at a time they worked smaller farms and there was plenty of land for that.
 
Really? History really eludes you doesn't it.......... The Great Plains was called the Great American Desert by the early settlers moving west in the early 1800s. It was an obstacle to get through not settle in, lack of water and poor soil made it unsuitable for farming at the time. It wasn't until the mid 1800s that Winter Wheat was developed that could grow in that region and before that it belonged to the Spanish who sold it to the French who sold it to us in 1803. It was mostly populated by the Plains Indian tribes not all of whom were friendly. The great westward migration didn't happen until after the Civil War which ended in 1865. Prior to the 1800s the fertile Ohio Valley was the longed for prize.
Honestly you should take a few history courses instead of proving just how ignorant you really are.........
There is a strip of temperate humid climate, without droughts. An area of prairie where good dense grass grows.

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I guess you prefer to remain dense. Sometimes I can't decide whether to laugh or just shake my head at your stupidity. Again, try taking some history courses, really........
I don't believe in the "histories" written by the colonists. Moreover, their version does not coincide with scientific data.
 

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