I think the press was always trying to find ways to criticize him, but he ignored it..?
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Well it all depends on what type of map your are referring to Asia and South America may or may not be colored in neutral. My map however shows them in full color. There are alot of maps created for different purposes so there is no way to know unless I know what map you are looking at. Usually, if they are grayed out, it means the creator of the map does not want you to focus on that area.
The power is concurrent power, examples of concurrent power would be the power to tax citizens, create lower courts, and build roads. These are shared by the federal and state/local government to ensure that the state functions properly.
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to England and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials. The Maryland Committee of Correspondence was instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia. These served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments. The committees of correspondence rallied opposition on common causes and established plans for collective action, and so the group of committees was the beginning of what later became a formal political union among the colonies.
The answer is that early on the English were looking for a "Northwest Passage". This would be a shorter trade route to East Asia. For a long time it was believed that there was a large body of water in North America that would lead to the Orient. The English were interested in the raw materials that they could find in North America, including the islands of the Caribbean.