Answer: One of the most accomplished conquistadors was Hernán Cortés, who led a relatively small Spanish force, but with local translators and the crucial support of thousands of native allies, achieved the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the campaigns of 1519-1521 (present day Mexico).
Explanation: This involved an exchange of plants, goods, ideas, and diseases from Europe to the Americas. This exchange benefitted Europeans more than Native Americans because Europeans spread smallpox , a deadly disease, to Native Americans when they came into contact with them.
Henry Grady was a newspaper editor who intended to industrialize the South, since there was a Second Industrial Revolution in America after the Civil War that impacted very positively in the North. Even though he succedeed at some of it with the emerging of textile mills and tobacco factories, the plans for the New South ultimately failed as rural poverty persisted across the region and African Americans were not benefited in the process.
Answer:
C or D World War 1. (Pick whichever option says World War One)
Explanation:
As these European powers such as Britian, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia were industrializing due to the coming of a modern age (20th Century). Resources had become the primary target of vast colonial empires. Strategic territories as well such as British occupied Eygpt or India had multiple advantages over other countries through the African and Asian markets. Germany in comparison had a little number of colonies in Africa and South-East Asia. Competition like this would favor a World War to gain an advantage over rival empires.
Answer:
April 15, 1865, Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
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