The proposition that he suggested was that the states should unite into a single union. What inspired him to propose this was the idea on how the Iroquois nation united five different Native-American nations under a single banner into a single union. Nobody supported this but eventually they started supporting the idea.
I do believe that it was in 1834 not sure though
The Cold War rivalry directly influenced all of the following except "religion", since the conflict that existed during this time between the US and the USSR was primarily over economic and and non-religious ideological issues.
They were immune to the deceases and where more used to being slaves since they were in africa as well