Geography: Cause Of War

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Geography is destiny because of geography most of these wars happened and without geography we wouldn’t be the America we are right now. Geography has caused different commotions to happen for example wars and disagreements. The unique geography has caused war since settlers who were from the Ohio and Mississippi Valley intruded the Native Americans since they were really close to each other so they fought each other and this war was called the Battle of Tippecanoe Creek. When Andrew Jackson was sent to chase raiding seminoles into Florida he instead went to Spain and launched an attack. Later on America took even more land from other.countries because the geography made it that these other places ex. Florida were really close with each other

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