The correct answer is <span>find a water route to the East
They believed that since the world is round that they could reach the east, places like China and India, if they went westwards. They didn't know that the Americas existed and many believed that the earth was either much smaller or that only a huge body of water was found in that area. This is why they believed that they had reached India when they reached the Americas.</span>
Germany and Ireland were the two countries that sent the most immigrants to America between 1860 and 1900. The immigration was voluntary, not forced by their own governments.
"As a result of some former Confederate states' refusal to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment,"
Possible answer = Congress established military rule in the South.
Http://www.theworldeconomy.org/impact/Portugal_s_major_advantages.html This should answer your question
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