The Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb in 1949.
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Amerigo Vespucci is remembered for several important reasons. He explored the mouth of the Amazon River. He also developed a method for determining longitude. Perhaps Vespucci's most important contribution, however, was his realization that the continent he was exploring was not Asia.
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In search of fame and fortune, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands. En route he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean.
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Slaves were a relatively inexpensive and plentiful labor force.
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Slave owners had gotten away with being able to own slaves and not pay them, no matter how much work they had done. If they had gotten paid it was a very small amount, some were just paid a few cents a day.
The Beer and Whiskey League, officially American Association (1882-1891), was created to compete against the National League (NL) which was viewed as prude.
In the late 1800s baseball was becoming a national interest and because of that was the subject of political dispute as to its limits. It became representative of the conflict between nativist Americans and immigrants.
Nativists in the baseball represented by the National League did not want alcohol sale in the ballparks nor games on Sundays. On the other hand, for many people, especially German and Eastern European immigrants alcohol and Sunday games were an essential part of baseball.
Because of this conflict brewers and distillers in Louisville, Cincinnatti, and Pittsburgh, cities with large populations of immigrants, created the American Association. For these people, beer and baseball was an important part of their cultural lives.
In this period its clear how nativists and immigrants fought for their different views on baseball accordingly to their cultural framings. For many decades yet the association between immigrants and alcohol would be used by racist nativists against immigrant populations.
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C) The rise of a distinct Latin American ethnic identity
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