He wanted America to be independent and didn’t want to join conflicts with other countries.
The two years prior to World War I in the region of the Balkans saw the rising of Serbian nationalistic Groups. Later came the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in the Balkan City of Sarajevo, main cause of the war.
John Calvin
was the original founder of Theology Presbyterianism and John Knox and a catholic priest who was roman had studied John's findings and later brought the teaching's back starting from Scotland.
Being along oceans or major water ways made trade to other areas more accessible, which attributed to those cities' economic and financial growth.
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