A. The opportunity to establish the US as a Military power :)
It dried up.
North Africa used to be a fertile grassland, even swampy in some spots, 12,000 years ago. By 1000 BC (actually quite a while before) it had dried up into what is the the largest desert i the world: the Sahara.
Umm here you go... they had a problem with it because ...
They must be at least 35 years old and a resident of the United States for at least 14 years.
Answer:
It allowed the government to pay its debts in dollars, not gold.
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