1899, the United States declared the Open Door Policy. The Americans worried that other nations would soon divide China into formal colonies and shut out the American traders. They proposed that China's doors be open to merchants of all nations.
The Triple Intervention was a diplomatic intervention between France, Russia and Germany.
Mainly because it toughened-up the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways.
This recruited many new Abolitionists, and caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
Traditionally, when we tell the story of “Colonial America,” we are talking about the English colonies along the Eastern seaboard. That story is incomplete–by the time Englishmen had begun to establish colonies in earnest, there were plenty of French, Spanish, Dutch and even Russian colonial outposts on the American continent–but the story of those 13 colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia) is an important one. It was those colonies that came together to form the United States. Mostly all of the governments were constitutional monarchy excluding some like the southern colonies in the Indian subcontinent.
Its a constitutional monarchy because there was a government which was elected by the people but the supreme powers were at the hands of the King or the Queen.
You didnt state what the Confederates were surprised with!!!!!
