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The U.S. entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble. Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war.
The people who held the most power in Puritan towns were men--especially men who had a high social status as a priest, since this was a society based strongly around religion.
The freedoms the Northwest Ordinance guaranteed was freedom of religion, speech and trial by jury, and the freedom of the press, religion and the freedom to own slaves.