The west symbolized the growth populations of America.
Calvinism is the religion that the puritans practiced.
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited African-American<span> educator Booker T. Washington, who had become close to the president, to dine with his family at the White House</span>
The colonists argued that a direct tax was a violation of their rights because they did not get to elect the people who passed it. The colonies had no representation in the British Parliament.