s mainly populated on the east coast, but still expanded westward into the land the either won in war or bought. During this duration, many environments and habitats were damaged. As the 1860's came around the nation began to clash and the Civil War began. There were many lives lost and the land was trampled from the different armies of the North and South fighting. Not to mention the inaccuracy of the old rifles hitting trees and animals. As I stated before during the 1880's people were hunting and killing the buffalo, not for food but to get them out of the way of the wagon trains. In addition to war and expansion the 1800's also was the major growing point to the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution industry was just being created for the most part therefore the idea of pollution, sewage, or endangering the environment did cross people's minds, but there was a lack of interest. The 1900's started to reform some of th
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