<span>After refusing to repay their debt following the Mexican-American War, European powers decided to implement a navy blockade onto the country, which would ultimately restrict an array of goods and products from coming into the country, further crippling their economy.</span>
<span>When the USS Maddox was fired
upon, it was situated in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The USS Maddox incident was also known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident.</span>
<span>USS Maddox was an Alien M.
Sumner-class destroyer given the name of Captain William A.T. Maddox. </span>
This unexpected Northern win gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation without making it look like a desperate measure.The Proclamation made it ethically impossible for Britain to aid the Confederates - a most significant outcome.The battle also spelt the end for McClellan.Although he had won the battle, he failed to pursue and destroy the Army of Northern Virginia, which the whole of Lincoln's cabinet thought he should have <span>done, and he was promptly replaced by Burnside.</span>
You would be in Pennsylvania. A lot of Amish and Quaker people settled there. "Pennsylvania Dutch" is a common expression...
