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The privateer America earned quite a reputation for the number of British ships she plundered and the value of the cargo seized. the marauding work of the America was so devastating to the British merchant marine that the British government built a frigate, the Dublin, for the express purpose of chasing the America from the seas.
Long after the war ended, the captain of America and the captain of the Dublin met in Valparaiso. Neither knew the other's identity. In the course of a conversation the Briton remarked:
"I was once almost within gun-shot of that infernal Yankee skimming-dish, just as night came on. By daylight she had outsailed the Dublin so devilish fast that she was no more than a speck on the horizon. By the way, I wonder if you happen to know. the name of the beggar that was master of her."
"I'm the beggar," smiled the American master and they drank a toast to each other's health
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Explanation:
The New Deal was a set of domestic policies enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt that dramatically expanded the federal government’s role in the economy in response to the Great Depression.
Historians commonly speak of a First New Deal (1933-1934), with the “alphabet soup” of relief, recovery, and reform agencies it created, and a Second New Deal (1935-1938) that offered further legislative reforms and created the groundwork for today’s modern social welfare system.
It was the massive military expenditures of World War II, not the New Deal, that eventually pulled the United States out of the Great Depression
The two countries changed from being friendly allies to being fierce rivals. <span>Because of the difference in the way they were affected after the war and political and economic differences, their postwar goals were different so therefor they stayed separate. </span>
His first name is Barack. I hope this isn't a jokeExplanation:
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- Habeas Corpus was suspended during his Presidency.
- Made slavery illegal in the United States.
- First President to be assassinated
- Famous "Address" was given at the dedication of a battlefield cemetery
- "Four score and seven years ago..."
- Lincoln's War Powers
Explanation:
Abraham Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War as he claimed emergency powers for himself (Lincoln war powers) to enable him deal with the Southern cessation.
He contributed to making slavery illegal by championing the 13th Amendment which cleared Congress before his assassination but was only ratified after. His assassination went down in history as the first time a president was assassinated.
His very famous ''Gettysburg Address'' which began with the words: "Four score and seven years ago..." was given as he dedicated a battlefield cemetery for Union soldiers.
