B.to search for gold and others precious metals
The significance of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 was that it changed the rules of engagement for US ships, which can now fire upon approaching vessels without captain approval.
Racial feelings with freed slaves
A major challenge during the Reconstruction was a lack of political focus which led to a failure to solve sectional wounds. It also resulted in the elimination of the freed slaves' newly gained civil liberties and ultimately failed to bring about long-term racial integration.
It would be the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union in which Reagan fought any progressive movements like the Sandinistas in NIcaragua by funding the contras and also he bombed Kaddafi in Libya by trying to make him out to be a tyrant when in fact it turns out that he transformed Libya into one of the most modern and progressive countries in Africa under him.
They are taxes on goods that are imported into a country. A government may use the money from them to fund government operations.
