A/Allied forces captured a few strategic pacific islands from the Japanese and then used those reclaimed islands as bases from which to advance the remaining targets -Apex
The Persian empire was punishing the Greeks for their support of a Greek uprising in Persian territory.
A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides. The south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law, the north gained a new free state, California. Texas lost territory but was compensated with 10 million dollars to pay for its debt. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington DC, but slavery was not.
A census is an official, complete count of a population. A census may also record details about each person such as age, sex, and living arrangement.
