The answer is that Zebulon Pike, the U.S. Army officer who in 1805 led an exploring party in search of the source of the Mississippi River, sets off with a new expedition to explore the American Southwest. Pike was instructed to seek out headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and to investigate Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Pike and his men left Missouri and passed through the present day states of Kansas and Nebraska before reaching Colorado, where he spotted the famous mountains later named in his honor. From there, they traveled down to New Mexico, where they were stopped by Spanish officials and charged with illegal entry into Spanish- held territory. His party was escorted to Santa Fe, then down to Chihuahua, back up through Texas, and finally to the border of the Louisiana Territory, where they were released. Soon after returning to the east, Pike was implicated in a plot with former Vice President Aaron Burr to seize territory in the Southwest for mysterious ends. However, after an investigation, Secretary of State James Madison fully exonerated him. The information he provided about the U.S. territory in Kansas and Colorado was a great impetus for future U.S. settlement, and his reports about the weakness of Spanish authority in the Southwest stirred talk of the future U.S. annexation.
Pretty much full religious freedom, as long the subjects worshipped Roman Gods. Jews were excused from worshipping Roman Gods.
Treaty of Tordesillas<span>, (June 7, 1494), agreement between </span>Spain and Portugal<span> aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. Map showing the line of demarcation between </span>Spanish and Portuguese<span> territory</span>
<span>That tension came to a head in Korea. Overshadowed by WWII, the Korean War has often been called America's "forgotten war," though like Vietnam it was part of a larger Cold War struggle to extinguish communism. In 1950, North Korean communist troops invaded South Korea, which was an American ally.</span>
Due to extremely high levels of unemployment and a sense among the public that not enough was being done by the administration to help those who had fallen on hard times during the economically stagnant first years of the Great Depression.
