<span>The Silk Road became dangerous. Europeans needed a new way to reach Asia. At 1st they were trying to sail around Africa.</span>
Taxation is not permitted without Parliament's permission.
At first, the view by the Department of War<span> Ordnance Department was that soldiers would waste ammunition by firing too rapidly with repeating rifles, and thus denied a government contract for all such weapons. (They did, however, encourage the use of carbine breechloaders that loaded one shot at a time. Such carbines were shorter than a rifle and well suited for cavalry.)</span>[8]More accurately, they feared that the armies logistics train would be unable to provide enough ammunition for the soldiers in the field, as they already had grave difficulty bringing up enough ammunition to sustain armies of tens of thousands of men over distances of hundreds of miles. A weapon able to fire several times as fast would require a vastly expanded logistics train and place great strain on the already overburdened railroads and tens of thousands of more mules, wagons, and wagon train guard detachments. The fact that several Springfield rifle-muskets could be purchased for the cost of a single Spencer carbine also influenced thinking.[9]<span> However, just after the </span>Battle of Gettysburg<span>, Spencer was able to gain an audience with President </span>Abraham Lincoln<span>, who invited him to a shooting match and demonstration of the weapon on the lawn of the </span>White House<span>. Lincoln was impressed with the weapon, and ordered Gen. </span>James Wolfe Ripley<span> to adopt it for production, after which Ripley disobeyed him and stuck with the single-shot rifles.</span>[1]<span>[10]</span>
Answer:
Elizabeth Stanton is referring to the American Independence Day of 4th July.
Explanation:
Elizabeth Stanton wrote this letter to Lucretia Mott on July 19, 1876. The issue of the letter was mainly about women's rights and their work on gaining equality with men. Stanton expresses her utter frustration and disbelief in the many years it has taken them to fight for their rights and still not be given any fruitful result.
In her letter, she mentioned how <em>"the long, weary years of waiting and hoping without success" </em>had made them believe that there is no <em>"faith and hope to continue the work"</em>. She laments how the rulers of the country could not see the issue as important and that it might take so many more years to be able to see the fruits of their long struggle. She concluded the letter with the words <em>"May we now safely prophecy justice, liberty, equality for our daughters ere another centennial birthday shall dawn upon us"</em>.
The centennial birthday she is referring to in this letter is the American declaration of Independence Day of July 4th.
The correct answer is: "Head of State"
The US President, as Head of State, hosts visiting dignitaries. The Queen does this for the UK.
