Pangolins are said to be the world's most trafficked mammal. All eight species are targeted for their meat and for use in traditional Chinese medicine. <span>Little is known about this elusive creature, so it's difficult to estimate wild </span>population<span> sizes. But given the demand for </span>pangolin<span> meat and scales, the </span>population<span> is believed to be in decline.</span>
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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
Map from the French and Indian War
The French and Indian War resulted from ongoing frontier tensions in North America as both French and British imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere of influence in frontier regions. In North America, the war pitted France, French colonists, and their Native allies against Great Britain, the Anglo-American colonists, and the Iroquois Confederacy, which controlled most of upstate New York and parts of northern Pennsylvania. In 1753, prior to the outbreak of hostilities, Great Britain controlled the 13 colonies up to the Appalachian Mountains, but beyond lay New France, a very large, sparsely settled colony that stretched from Louisiana through the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes to Canada. (See Incidents Leading up to the French and Indian War and Albany Plan)
The border between French and British possessions was not well defined, and one disputed territory was the upper Ohio River valley. The French had constructed a number of forts in this region in an attempt to strengthen their claim on the territory. British colonial forces, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, attempted to expel the French in 1754, but were outnumbered and defeated by the French. When news of Washington’s failure reached British Prime Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, he called for a quick undeclared retaliatory strike. However, his adversaries in the Cabinet outmaneuvered him by making the plans public, thus alerting the French Government and escalating a distant frontier skirmish into a full-scale war.
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A. The USS Maine exploded in Cuba’s Havana harbor.
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The USS Maine warship was in Cuba's Havana Harbor on a sunny day, when suddenly it exploded. The United States assumed it was Spain's fault and then the United States declared war on Spain. The Spanish and Americans fought the <u>Spanish-American</u> <u>War</u>. The United States won the war.
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The abolitionists were accused of provoking stronger sectionalism because they used violent and aggressive tactics and actively worked to undermine the slave system in the south.
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Some historians say that the abolitionists actually helped to strengthen sectionalism in the south because In the North, the abolitionist feeling grew and there was opposition to the extension of slavery into the Western regions that had not yet become states. The Southerners believed that slavery was essential to their economy and even non-slaveholding whites in the the south generally supported slavery because they did not want the competition for land from free blacks. In 1835 antislavery mailings were sent to southern post offices and this angered the pro-slavery segment of Southern society. John Brown was an abolitionist who tried to start a slave revolt in the south in 1859 with a raid on an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
