<span>Kepler's laws of motion helped overturn the earlier Aristotelian astronomical system which believed that the sun and planets revolved around the Earth. In order for the older system to work, a complicated mechanism known as "epicycles" was required to make the visible motions match the theory.</span>
The United States wanted to build the Panama Canal in order to save time and money on trading. Before the Panama Canal, people had to sail all the way around Africa in order to get to the other side of the world, which costed much more money and took a lot longer. The US owns the canal because of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty, which gave the rights to the USA to build and manage it.
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I'm assuming you meant the civil war so the answer to that would be The Battle Of Gettysburg.