Discrimination and being treated as second class citizens
Before the USS Maine exploded, the United States was trying to expand as a world power. Thus, many Americans blamed Spain for the explosion of the USS Maine because it gave them a reason to declare war on Spain and take control of Spanish territory in the Pacific and Caribbean.
Perhaps the greatest shortcoming of the Progressive movement was that it lacked any real political prowess, since most in Congress were the very corrupt people the movement itself was trying to overtake.
Today the process is known as pasteurization. Shifting focus, in 1865,Pasteur helped save the silk industry. Heproved that microbes were attacking healthy silkworm eggs, causing an unknown disease, and that the disease would be eliminated if the microbes were eliminated.
Fortify is a verb that means "strengthen (a place) with defensive works so as to protect it against attack."
Ex. "The whole town was heavily fortified"
