Culture: Christianity in Africa. Towns become sophisticated.
Society: more women than men because men 14 - 35 were the most profitable slaves. Women had to do men's jobs. Polygamy. Life got more dangerous because of guns.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise<span>, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years.</span>
The United States first began developing nuclear weapons in 1939, during World War II, under the order of President Franklin Roosevelt. Motivation was the fear that US was engaged in a race with Nazi Germany to develop nuclear weapon. This project is best known as Manhattan Project.
Horace Mann was an educational reformer who lived in the US in the 19th century. He was a first to advocate a system of a public schools and public education as he believed that everyone had a right to education and that it should be free, democratic and have a professionally trained educators who would provide a quality education.
General George Washington was appointed as commander-in-chief of the colonial army, and, as you already know, later became the first president of the United States of America.
