1. migration led to populating the world from people moving from place to place, mainly after the Ice Age when the ice melted (it connected Asia to North America). This connection of ice led to traveling and eventually creating different civilizations all around the world.
2.Benefits of permanent settlement: solid resources that can be reached at any time. stronger homes to live in. crops growing for months. Benefits of nomadic settlement: travel following seasons, so there will always be resources that line up with the weather. there's no piece of land that's "territory". following herds of animals means it's a constant food source. following where rivers flow eventually leads to lakes (salmon).
It is clear that Douglas viewed African Americans as inferior beings who should not be given the rights of white people. Lincoln felt similarly, but at least thought they should be free.
American militia fighting on their own soil was arguably the largest technical factor in them winning the war. Americans knew the land they fought on, and therefore knew the best routes to take for supplies, troop movements, and where the British may have been hiding. American militias hired <em>frontiersmen</em>, men who had grown up in the woods and knew how to hunt and travel in them, to fight on their side of the war. This allowed for a huge advantage over the British in the ground battles of the war.
Americans also had something that the British did not: patriotism. The Americans knew that, if they did not win the war, they would have to go back to living under the unfair British rule, if they did not die that is. Americans were able to use this spirit to fight their war harder than the British did.
Americans did not fight England's war. They disregarded the European ideas of a gentleman's war and fought, as the British considered them, dirty. The Americans shot and killed commanding officers, shot and killed their horses, attacked at night and during meal and tea times, and other war strategies that went against how the British had been taught to fight their whole life. This gave Americans a large edge over the British in individual battles.
