Do you think it was a mistake to expand the US beyond the original 13 colonies? Why/why not?

answer-the island had airfields that the u.s. military needed.

mount st. helens in washington erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people on this day in 1980. ash from the volcanic eruption fell as far away as minnesota. seismic activity at mount st. helens, which is 96 miles south of seattle, began on march 16.