In light of the third or fourth-hand reports from Estevan of terrific places ahead, Marcos told the emissary the supposed brilliant urban communities of the north might exist. Empowered by the minister's stories, the traveler Coronado traveled north a year later, unquestionably encouraging to come back with crowds of gold.
Like Estevan and Marcos, he found no gold; however, he returned with an abundance of helpful information about the topography and individuals of the Southwest.
Three reform issues Dorr took up were:
-A new Constitution for Rhode Island, which hadn't been changed since it was written in the 1600s
-Universal suffrage for white male voters, as opposed to only landowners
- a change in how representatives were elected, because at the time rural interests had a disproportionate say due to their high land area.
After just one season, he transferred to the Brooklyn Dodgers. As he stepped onto the field as first baseman in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first Major League baseball player to break the color barrier an unspoken social code of racial segregation or discrimination 7 since 1880.
