Answer:
They took American sailors and sunk trading ships.
Explanation:
During the 1800s Americans and British were at war, and Britain didn't want America to have help so they sunk the trading ships.
Spanish settlements in North America had one purpose only: to protect their shipments of gold and silver from competing European powers. The first successful settlement in North America, St. Augustine, Florida was built to protect Spanish fleets from attack by privateers. The statement above that the Spanish had "big cities. large farms" is patently incorrect.
It should be noted that the first successful rebellion in America; Pope's rebellion, also known as the Pueblo revolt, was the result of numerous failed promises on the part of the Spanish. Four hundred Spaniards were killed in the revolt and the Spanish lost control of New Mexico.
Nixon’s cost to China showed friendliness toward China and that political borders between capitalist and communist countries were loosening
