1898: The Birth of a Superpower. The 1898 Treaty of Paris ending the war gave Cuba its independence and also ceded important Spanish possessions to the United States—notably Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the small island of Guam. The United States was suddenly a colonial power with overseas dependencies.
Answer: Moving their goods down river to the Mississippi, to New Orleans, and then by sea to the cities on the Eastern Seaboard was cheaper and actually easier which made it a popular location for trade and to build cities . Also The Mississippi River provided water source to the people whom lived in the area.
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True, it was religiously offensive to the troops of the nation.
Islam is a religion the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
Abraham Lincoln belived that slavery was bad completely and wanted to abolish it. When his election prompted the secession and the war started he made the emancipation proclamation which effectively freed all slaves on rebel territories and later he was the creator of the 13th amendment which permanently outlawed slavery in all American territories.
Contrary to him Stephen Douglass believed that democracy should be the biggest way to solve the slavery issue. He wasn't against slavery nor for it on a federal level, what he wanted was for the the states to decide democratically through popular sovereignty and that the federal government would not interfere with their elections.
