The northern hemisphere? I don't completely understand the question.
The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 had a very negative effect on the American public opinion of Germany, since it was the Germans who sank the American ship for seemingly no reason.
The bill of rights came from the English Bill of rights when America was still under Britain's control. When we left Britain's control, we needed a foundation for our government to run off of. So, the founders went to work writing the Constitution. Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a BoR. Anti-federalists refused to sign the const. without a BoR. The Bill of Rights was added and the Constitution was ratified.
Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic. Paine avoided flowery prose.
<span>Westward Expansion and the American Civil War. To many nineteenth century Americans, the expansion of slavery into Western territories caused a great deal of controversy. ... These fears were realized when the expansion of slavery into western territories entered Congressional debates</span>
