Answer:
<u>Puritans</u>
Explanation:
The first English colony in North America was Jamestown (named after King James, the heir of Elizabeth I Tudor) in present-day Virginia, founded in 1607 in the territory of the great Confederation of the Algonquin tribes of Pauvatan. Thirteen years later, the English Puritans, apostates of the Anglican Church, arrived in the New World aboard the Mayflower in 16201. They landed in the territory of the present-day state of Massachusetts. In the vicinity they established the Plymouth colony in the coastal area and the land that was called New England in 1616, until then the French and other Europeans called it Norumbega. Historians often refer to them as "Puritans," but they called themselves "separatists" because they separated from the Anglican Church, or "saints" because their church, in its early Christian model, was "the church of the saints." The name "pilgrims" used are members of the Mayflower Passenger Descendants Society.
1) It was an attempt to stop smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by lowering it's tax. It was designed to make England get more money but the colonists ended up profiting more.
2) The purpose of lowering the tax on molasses was to induce importers to buy molasses from British colonies instead of smuggling it from competing French and Spanish colonies. The Sugar Act also increased enforcement of smuggling laws. They had a good idea, they just went too far with it.
Answer:
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the UN. The Court has two functions: To settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted by States, and. To give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized UN organs and specialized agencies.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided for the "<span>government of new territories</span>" since it established official territory that would become states, and prohibited slavery in the entire region.
