On this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. In his address to Congress that day, Wilson lamented it is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war. Four days later, Congress obliged and declared war on Germany.
In February and March 1917, Germany, embroiled in war with Britain, France and Russia, increased its attacks on neutral shipping in the Atlantic and offered, in the form of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if it would join Germany in a war against the United States. The public outcry against Germany buoyed President Wilson in asking Congress to abandon America’s neutrality to make the world safe for democracy.
Wilson went on to lead what was at the time the largest war-mobilization effort in the country’s history. At first, Wilson asked only for volunteer soldiers, but soon realized voluntary enlistment would not raise a sufficient number of troops and signed the Selective Service Act in May 1917. The Selective Service Act required men between 21 and 35 years of age to register for the draft, increasing the size of the army from 200,000 troops to 4 million by the end of the war. One of the infantrymen who volunteered for active duty was future President Harry S. Truman.
Dred Scott decision, formally <span>Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford</span>, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war.
Among constitutional scholars, Scott v. Sandford is widely considered the worst decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court. It has been cited in particular as the most egregious example in the court’s history of wrongly imposing a judicial solution on a political problem. A later chief justice, Charles Evans Hughes, famously characterized the decision as the court’s great “self-inflicted wound.”
Television advancement cannot be attributed to only one individual. Several participants through History can be acknowledged to have contributed in Television timeline. However, in the early 1920's, an inventor called John Logie Baird was the first to broadcast the first images in motion (Scotland). Also in America, a man called Charles Francis Jenkins, made his own advances with the television.
Television contributed to a better communication throughout the world, which enabled countries from one side of the continent to know what was happening on the other side. But also, Television represented a commercial and economic opportunity for both corporations and individuals.
The correct answer is answer A ("They were searching for a water route through Africa").
<u>The point furthest towards the south in Africa, provides an organic breaking point for ships sailing towards the east where the Indies were located</u>.
In the beginning, South Africa was used as a resupplying point for all sea expeditions towards the east. This point came to be known as Cape Town, of massive strategic importance in the efficiency of their route, which later grew into european settlement and expansion in the area. These territories also presented great biodiversity and resources as well as good climate and low population.
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The earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago.
