11. He had wept and the people cheered because the berlin wall was finally torn down and East and west Germany was once again united as one country. When the communist took over east Germany and built the wall, many fled rather than live under communist rule. Many had died attempting to do so because of freedom.
12. The president assumed that as rich Americans got richer then they will open more businesses. Now as new businesses opened, more middle-low class citizens will follow. The middle and lower class will either get jobs at these new businesses considering that the job pay better then their old job. Another assumption would be that the middle and lower class will get some of those benefits that the rich have. The new businesses would also lure rural Americans into the cities. Where they would get better jobs and therefore better benefits for all Americans.
It was the "First Continental Congress" that was formed after the passage of the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts, since these Acts represented somewhat of a "final straw" in terms of royal mistreatment of the colonists.
Italy was not a unified nation in the 1500's but a series of regions and city-states which shared the same peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. The power/domination of the Church of Rome had lost influenc.