On Jan. 20, Kamala Harris will become vice president of the United States – the first woman, the first person of South Asian descent, and the first African American to do so. Harris will also become the first vice president to have graduated from a historically black college or university.
Each of these achievements is significant in its own right. However, the vice presidency itself has traditionally been a relatively insignificant position, though the office has become more influential in recent years.
It was the "steel" industry that benefited most from the Bessemer process. Process involved impurities that could be removed from steel more easily.
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Although the nullification crisis was ostensibly about South Carolina's refusal to collect federal tariffs, many historians believe it was actually rooted in growing Southern fears over the movement in the North for the abolition of slavery.
In general, World War II played a role in the eventual decolonization of Southeast Asia because the Japanese lost the war and were forced to give up many of their holdings.
The american civil war started 1861 and ended 1865
