Because they could be turned into slave states, giving more power to the slaveowners in the south. Also, expansion policy and the dram of Manifest Destiny played a part in desiring that land.
Demeter, the Goddess of the Harvest. What happened was that Demeter wanted to get her daughter back from Hades, so she took a "resignation" from her duties as the harvest goddess and all plants were decaying on Earth, and droughts started.
King James 1 was important to the survival of the Jamestown settlers because he was the first monarch to establish successful colonies in the Americas. He appointed mercantile charters to English joint stock companies to found and run settlements and he was certainly heading the Jamestown settlement. The direction for funding and managing was under his reign
The growth of the silk road was greatly impacted by the growth in technology specifically modes of transportation. As the ability to move from place to place improved more trips were made and therefore the increase of trade products and use of the silk road took place.
American and Filipino troops retreated to Bataan.