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Old February 16th, 2005, 05:57 PM
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Default Re: OT (or is it?): American Imperialism

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StrategiaInUltima said:
Don't forget Alaskians and Hawaiiites.
Alaska was purchased from Russia, who had conquered it, and Hawaii applied for admission to the US after they had a successful internal revolution by a bunch of plantation owners after the US raised tarrifs (Hawaii's application waited five years before it was approved - plenty of time to discover whether or not the new regime was going to quickly collapse, or itself get overthrown - it didn't). Texas joined the US in a manner similar to Hawaii.
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