The Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California's development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood.
<span>A. The European population nearly doubled, the Native American population dropped greatly, and millions of Africans were sent to the Americas as slaves.</span>
The three colonies that tolerated different religions from the time of their founding are Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland.
The founders of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Maryland were mainly motivated by a desire to establish religiously tolerant colonies, but it resulted to religious conviction.
William Penn, for example, was a Quaker who founded Pennsylvania to provide a refuge for Quakers as well as to showcase the Quaker ideals of brotherly love and tolerance.Roger Williams was a dissenting Puritan who founded Rhode Island as a tolerant colony for others of his religious convictions. Similar motivations underlay Lord Baltimore’s founding of Maryland.
During the reign of Henry VIII, the Act of Supremacy established the Church of England.
The true term is actually "Acts of Supremacy" because there were two that were passed. The first Act of Supremacy was passed in November 1534. This was the one that Henry VIII passed. The primary Act of Supremacy was actually repealed by Queen Mary I in 1554. It was then reinstated by her sister (Queen Elizabeth I) when she took the throne; which made her the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
Before the Act of Supremacy, the Pope was the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
