What is your favorite historical moment? That should be the topic. Then, ask a question about it.
The English bill of rights states <em>that no army should be kept in times of peace without the consent of the Parliament, while in the petitoion of rights the army depended entirely on the crown´s will. </em>Both of this documents were written to take power out of the english crown, before these the King or Queen had absolute power to do as they wanted. After the English bill of rights the Parliament became soveraign, and with this they divided the political power in England.
The idea of the us gaining all land from one seaboard to the other is called manifest destiny the us gained these lands through several different purchases, annexations, and agreements such as the annexation of texas the treaty to give the us land in oregon below the 49th parallel and so forth.