In the American Revolution, privateers transported arms, munitions and tropical products to the American continent. ... Following the American Revolution, many former privateers became captains on merchant ships, because without war, privateering was no longer needed on such a large scale.
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In late 19th century/early 20th century, the United States had become a global power with interests - and investments - around the globe. It was a new status and it had was symbolized by the victory in the Spanish-American War. The US was strong, modern and industrialized and it could support a powerful army and the powerful navy advocated by naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan. The "big stick diplomacy" meant that the US could impose its preferred outcomes abroad by military force if it wanted to. It translated into military interventions in the Caribbean to bring order in troubled nations and prevent European intervention, anathema to the Monroe Doctrine.
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The Confederate general that won the first major battle of the Civil War was Stonewall Jackson, who excelled in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, after which he was promoted to General on October 7 of that same year and was given the command of the District of Valley, with headquarters in Winchester (Virginia), where he defeated Union troops, far superior to his own.
<span>Federalists proposed that popularly elected conventions should ratify the Constitution rather than the state legislatures themselves doing the ratifying.
</span><span>In this way, state legislators were not being asked to vote for a document that would have them give up some amount of their own state authority. Also, by having those who attended the ratification conventions be elected by the people in their area to represent their interests, the Constitution would be seen as having the full consent of the people because they had directly elected the convention delegates who approved the Constitution.</span>
