Before European colonists arrived, numerous indigenous tribes inhabited America. They had different ways of interpreting their view of the sky. They learnt to pass on their knowledge of the stars through stories.
For example, the Pawnee Indians used a group of stars called "The Council of Chiefs" (the Corona Borealis), not only for spiritual purposes but also in order to set agricultural patterns.
A common sight around America are petroglyphs and pictographs, which they used to preserve. They also used to depict animals and astronomical events such as eclipses.
It makes no sense for a government on a small island such as Britain to have control over the colonies in America since America is so much bigger, as well as an ocean away.
-Jefferson was a foreign ambassador to France and so probably put France first.
-The Americans had promised Lafayette to support the revolutionaries if France ever had a coup'detat
1. Because of tensions between Soviet Union and US
2. In a way they were because of those tensions
3. McCarthy accused a lot of Hollywood stars and eventually people from the government themselves
4. People who were accused, stood on trial and were pressured to answer whether they were actually communists, and if they didn't confess, they would go to jail
5. I assume it's the restriction of lying to the court, something like that (sorry)
6. Senator McCarthy died by chronic alcoholism, they never found the list that Senator McCarthy said he had when he made his speech
7. McCarthyism is viewed as the most ridiculous thing that happened in the 1900s, it's just like how the puritans went on a witch hunt back in the 1600s, and they're both not very proud moments of America