The true statement would be: <span>Vasco da Gama traveled to India. He was ordered by the Portuguese empire to establish a trading route to India because the empire was interested in India's spices. He managed to created a trading post in Calicut, India, in May 1498 (but have to made several stops in Africa)</span>
Jacksonian Democracy greatly impacted reform movements in the first half of the Nineteenth Century because it spread the idea that all men were created equal, and as such should be allowed the same privileges.