Many people moved to California in 1848 following the <span>discovery of gold.</span>
<span> In 1893, the Cleveland administration's repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
A. caused the value of currency to contract.</span>
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Hannibal's losses in the Second Punic War effectively put an end to Carthage's empire in the western Mediterranean, leaving Rome in control of Spain and allowing Carthage to retain only its territory in North Africa. Carthage was also forced to give up its fleet and pay a large indemnity to Rome in silver.
The spirit of Liberalism or the spirit of Unity perhaps. Both liberalism and unity among nations were at first the main post ww2 ideas but were soon abandoned with many repressive governments found especially in Eastern Europe, as well as the split of Europe into two blocks and the beginning of the cold war.