The majority of Italian immigrants came to American between 1880 and 1910 to escape poverty in Southern Italy.
Manifest Destiny basically mean, "EVERYONE MOVE TO THE WEST NOW!" But with no slaves, how would they create farms to maintain themselves? Easy: expand slavery. However, this was battled against by several sources to create the Compromise of 1850. The compromise delayed the Civil War, despite politicians knowing it will eventually happen. It bought them time-- that was important! Other new states like Nebraska and Kansas were allowed to allow slavery or not. This eventually grew to where the North had no slavery and the South did, which lead to the Civil War.
it was the first to space, a race between Russia and America. Russia won. They're really was no significance of winning expect bragging rights
World War I--in the end WWI is connected to the annexation as the Serbian attack on Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a response to the annexation.
Following the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian nationalists called the Black Hand planned an attack on the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's visit to Bosnia. This assassination, triggered the events which led directly to the outbreak of World War I.