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           It is important to know the reasons for the Europeans to explore and settle in North America because it molded our lives and culture in to the way it is today. For example if the colonist had never imported slaves to work on their farms, and only had kept indentured servants, we might not of had to go through racism or the Civil War. But on the other hand we might still have slaves in our country today or not have anything in our history known as the Civil Rights Movement. I also believe knowing our history gives important background information on event that occurred in our nation such as the reason we broke away from England and started the Revolutionary War. By knowing our history it shows that North America develops based on their past history and the past countries have made up a big part of culture in today's society. For example  in Florida a lot of the buildings have the Spanish architecture and culture from the past. Also a lot of the crops that we grow here today came from either the Native Americans or one of the country's colonies that had settled in America. Corn, tobacco, indigo, and sugar cane are some of the crops that were in the past. In this chapter I felt that the majority of the stuff we learned in this chapter was important. I enjoyed learning about the different countries that settled in North America as well as the territories changing over time.