Influential People: John Alden, William Bradford, William Brewster, John Carver, Myles Standish, The Winslow Brothers,John Winthrop, John Rolfe, Pocahontas, Lord Baltimore, King James I, English Separatist Church, and The Pilgrims, John Smith, Tisquantum (Squanto), Pawtuxet Tribe
Important Events: The Mayflower Compact, The Mayflower Expedition at Cape Cod, Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony, Pilgrim Father's reach America (Provincetown Harbor, Mass), Myles Standish makes contact with Native Americans. Thanksgiving Dinner, Pilgrims separated from the church, Founding of Jamestown, First Winter in the New World, Pequot War,
Abraham Lincoln wanted to avoid controversy about slavery even though he wanted to abolish it. He said he wouldn't change anything about slavery so that he would get supporters. After he was elected President of the United States he kept that promise until the Civil War started and he had to make it about slavery so that people would see why he was using so much energy and money on a war. Hope this helps! Please let me know if I missed something :)
Explanation: Due to the author´s participation in the book of acts, it can be deduced from the "passages" that Luke was a close collaborator of the Apostle Paul, whose previous name was Saul in Tarsus. For example, the author of acts writes that "when it was decided that we were going to Italy, we delivered Paul and other prisoners to a centurion called July, of the imperial regiment" (Acts 27:1).
It was England that was the birth place of the Industrial Revolution, mostly due to the availability of manpower and resources. The Industrial Revolution quickly spread to the US however.
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The fall of the Berlin wall might have impacted the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States in that this event represented the culmination of tense and conflictive relationships during the Cold War years in which both nations competed in the arms race, meanwhile the Soviet Union tried to spread Communism in many places and the United States tried to stop it through the foreign policy of containment. USSR leader Mikail Gorbachev and his policies of Perestroika and Glasnost really helped to facilitate this process.