They hoped to discover the Northwest Passage or a direct water route to Asia.
<span>Lyman Beecher was a Presbyterian minister and was also the leader and co-founder of the American Temperance Movement. He fathered 13 children, one of whom was Harriet Beecher Stowe who authored Uncle Tom's Cabin.</span>
Silk, common currency, fireworks.
Those are the main three I know of.
The action that finally provoked the United states into bombing Libya was the start of the Libyan Civil War which resulted in hundreds of innocent Libyan people being killed by radical Libyan terrorists
