Previous content history did not transfer to the new character I created.

How do I go about doing that?

To restart your device you will need to go through the steps mentioned on this link How to restart or power cycle your Xbox console | Xbox Support as well as removing your account you can check this link Add or remove a Microsoft account on an Xbox console | Xbox Support.

With issues like these, our suggestion here is to try some basic troubleshooting steps such as clearing the cache and data, removing your account and then restarting your device as it will reset the OS and delete all potentially corrupted data.

creating an account is more suggestable because of this

You may lose the ability to re-download some, if not all, of the content in your download history.

any region locked US content will not be on the new regional account if you transfer the region



if you keep the us account on your hd and use the new account as the previous suggestionthe above poster said that will help when you come back to the US as you do not forfeit the previous download rights

You'll Need to do a license transfer, then go to download history and download the content again. Go to 'System's > 'Accounts' > 'Download History' to find previous content.