On April 24, 1644, Beijing fell to a rebel army led by Li Zicheng, a former minorMing official who became the leader of the peasant revolt, who then proclaimed the Shun dynasty. The last Ming emperor, the ChongzhenEmperor, hanged himself from a tree in the imperial garden outside the Forbidden City.
They experienced illness, the cold winter and shortages of supplies
An embargo is a ban on trade or commercial activity against a country. OPEC placed an embargo on countries supporting Isreal in 1973.
President Roosevelt hoped to bring people a renewed sense of hope. He also wanted to give them a sense of competent leadership. Finally, he had hoped to give American people confidence in their government.
