<span>It was called The Line of Demarcation, which was a boundary established by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493 to define the spheres of Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the New World. The line ran north and south 100 leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. All new lands lying east of this line were to belong to Portugal, all those to the west to Spain.</span>
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The Battle of New Orleans thwarted a British effort to gain control of a critical American port and elevated Major General Andrew Jackson to national fame. With a strategic focus on coastal regions and American trade and transportation, a British army attacked and burned Washington in August, 1814.
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The Nullification Crisis
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During the administration of President Andrew Jackson erupted <em>The Nullification Crisis </em>between 1832–33 turning into a political major issue. <em>The Nullification Crisis </em>involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government. An anonymous publication called <em>“South Carolina Exposition and Protest,” </em>was released with the intention of posing the "Theory of nullification":
—the declaration of a federal law as null also voiding within state limits. It was argued that since the authority of the federal government was derived from the consent of the states, such states could nullify any federal law they considered unconstitutional.
The options of the question should be, A) independent after the war. B) made into a Jewish homeland. C) made into a large nation called Trans-Jordan. D) closed to Jewish immigration.
The correct answer is A) independent after the war.
<em>During World War I, Great Britain promised that the Arabs provinces of the Middle East would be independent after the war.
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In 1915, the British government needed the Arabs support to defeat the Ottoman Empire in World War I. To make it happen, Great Britain promised independence of its territories. To do so, the British government wrote some letters and sent it to the Arabs. The documents were named “McMahon-Hussein correspondence.” But the British also were secretly negotiating other terms with the governments of France and Russia. So the British lied to the Arabs.
