2.5m years ago
Hopes it helps
In 1802, in response to Jefferson's request for authority to deal with the pirates, Congress passed "An act for the protection of commerce and seamen of the United States against the Tripolitan cruisers," authorizing the President to "employ such of the armed vessels of the United States as may be judged requisite.
Three fifth of the total population of registered voters
There are two interpretations of this:
1) It was a "gift" to Ukraine, marking the amicable relations between Ukraine and the Soviet Union, to bring them even closer
2) It made the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic more ethnically Russian; which would shift the dynamics in it and tie it even closer to Soviet Union (And for example make it less likely that it would try to split )
