Mostly because our modern civilizations were born there. "The region saw the development of some of the earliest human civilizations,
which flourished thanks to the water supplies and agricultural
resources available in the Fertile Crescent. Technological advances made
in the region include the development of writing, glass, the wheel, agriculture, and the use of irrigation." ~Wikipedia  
        
                    
             
        
        
        
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The four main objectives of U.S. foreign policy are the protection of the United States and its citizens and allies, the assurance of continuing access to international resources and markets, the preservation of a balance of power in the world, and the protection of human rights and democracy.
Explanation:
 Actually, no less a student of the United States than Andrei Gromyko once remarked that Americans have "too many doctrines and concepts proclaimed at different times" and so are unable to pursue "a solid, coherent, and consistent policy." Only recall the precepts laid down in Washington's Farewell Address and Jefferson's inaugurals, the speeches of John Quincy Adams, the Monroe Doctrine with its Polk, Olney, and Roosevelt Corollaries, Manifest Destiny, the Open Door, Wilson's Fourteen Points, Franklin Roosevelt's wartime speeches and policies, Containment in all its varieties, Nixon's détente, Carter's Notre Dame speech, Clinton's enlargement, and the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan Doctrines. Far from hurling the country into a state of anomie, the end of the Cold War has revealed anew the conceptual opulence that has cluttered American thinking throughout this century.
(Back to Bedrock: The Eight Traditions of American Statecraft)
 
        
             
        
        
        
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Postwar recovery that imposed harsh standards on the Southern states and supported newly freed slaves (freedmen) in their pursuit of political, economic, and social opportunities.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
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There were three types of colonies. In the first, called a <u><em>Self governing</em></u><u><em> </em></u>colony, a<em> </em><u><em>territory</em></u> was granted to a group of people. They were able to vote and could choose their own government. The second, called a <em><u>Royal</u></em> colony, was governed directly or indirectly by the <u><em>British Crown</em></u>. In the last kind (called a <u><em>Proprietary</em></u> colony), a <em><u>territory</u></em> was granted to a proprietor or individual, who was entrusted to govern the colony
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There were three types of colonies, Self governing, royal and proprietary.
- King owned the royal colonies
- Proprietary colonies were land grants from the British government. Individuals were given huge tracts of land in return for financial and political favors. they could govern and supervise the colonies. The colonial governors were directly answerable to the king. Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland were proprietary colonies.
- Self governing colonies were formed by the charters given to joint stock colonies by the king. Such companies had their own government in the colonies that was independent of the crown. Rhode island and Connecticut were self governing colonies.