How did corn affect and have to do with North American history?

Thanx in advance and I need this by Friday.

Yelena - lots of information is available by doing a search of "history of corn in north america". A couple that seem to have some pretty pertinent information follow:

Native American History of Corn
http://www.nativetech.org/cornhusk/cornhusk.html

In addition to the information on that site, also click on the link at the top "Read About Some Uses for Indian Corn" - this gives you more background information that may be useful to you.

The URL below will bring you some informative facts as well - especially the fact that corn can only survive if planted and protected by humans - it does not grow naturally in the wild. It also addresses where corn came from and how it has cultivated through time.

http://www.campsilos.org/mod3/students/c_history.shtml

Follow the above page to the bottom and additional links are provided for more history of corn and native americans.

Hope this helps.