At the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, many women who wanted voting rights gathered at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls, NY. They discussed women's rights, and addressed the matter of women's suffrage fiercely. Elizabeth Cady Stanton drew up the Declaration of Sentiments during the meeting.
Answer: No, both countries deployed large parts of their military forces to fight under the flag of another country.Yes, the U.S. military never directly engaged in these proxy wars.No, both countries still fought in proxy wars but not directly against each other.Yes, by definition, a proxy war means that there was no direct involvement of either nation.
The local elites controlled the areas through their vast wealth that was accumulated through trading and exploiting the colonies. The governments relied on them because they were useful and would not bother the government as long as they were free to do their business. The government would let them build wealth and trade with the origin country, while the elites would just earn even more and sometimes even get royalty titles.
The event that occurred first: The Missouri Compromise
- The Missouri Compromise was passed in Congress in 1820. It admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state with Maine being added as a free state at the same time, to keep the balance of slave and free states equal. It also prohibited any future slave states north of the latitude line 36 1/2 degrees north of the equator in territories of the Louisiana Purchase, with the exception of Missouri (north of that line) being admitted as a slave state.
The other items:
- Discovery of gold in California was in 1848.
- Application for statehood by California was in 1849.
- The Compromise of 1850 was (obviously) in 1850. As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted to the Union as a non-slavery state.
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Philippines
Fighting erupted between forces of the United States and those of the Philippine Republic on February 4, 1899, in what became known as the 1899 Battle of Manila. On June 2, 1899, the First Philippine Republic officially declared war against the United States.