Despite what many people think about Columbus, he was a cruel captain and a pretty evil man. He whipped his crew and mistreated them. One of the sailors found land first but he claimed that he had found land the day before. His crew was already threatening to rebel against him.
Spain lost power because of native uprising and wars with their European neighbors that weakened them
The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the American Civil War, and it occurred, in the summer of 1861, when many people believed the war would probably only consist of one big decisive battle. The battle, which was fought<span> in the heat of a July day in Virginia, had been carefull</span>
<span>The majority of Americans did not want more soldiers dying in foreign wars thousands of miles away. They were afraid of the massive cost of future wars and of foreign people coming into the US, which was why acts were passed, such as the Immigration Quota Act of 1921. (It said that immigrants had to pass a literacy test and that only a certain number of immigrants were allowed in each year). Americans did not want immigrants to take jobs because wages were lower since the immigrants would not join labor unions; they accepted lower wages. Americans also feared immigrants because of WW1 and the new political ideas that they brought (like communism).</span>
