Thedore Roosevelt was a Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Spanish-American war.
Because the South was mainly farms that had to be worked by hand, while the North was more industrialized and had more factories. The white Southerners did not want the slaves to be freed because they wouldn't have free labor and would be forced to pay workers to work their fields.
There are 27 grievances in total if I remember correctly. Some of them include: the unfair taxes on goods, the British Parliament passed laws that were deemed unfair, the colonists had no say in the Parliament, the colonists were not allowed to sell any goods to any other country other than Britain.
The Olive Branch petition, was an attempt to give colonists some rights while staying loyal to the British crown.
Because the US had a great geographical location which shileded them from immediate contact with any military force. This was one thing, another thing was that they were lending money to the different European nations which they had to return after some time. All of this enabled the US to catapult itself and become a world power.
