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James Oglethorpe is the answer to your question.
The answer to this question can be quite subjective. Some people will say that the telephone is the most important invention, or the automobile, or the plane, but for me personally, I'd choose antibiotics.
It is a modern-day invention (as opposed to the Middle Ages, for example) which changed our lives for the better. Before penicillin was discovered in the 1920s by Alexander Fleming, people were constantly dying because of most harmless diseases. But after antibiotics were invented, people were given a chance to recover from their illnesses much more easily.
South wanted slavery, rebellions because of Lincoln becoming president, John Brown's and other abolitionists actions, the consequences caused by Compromise of 1850, the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Act, and the controversy and Bleeding Kansas.
<span>The quote in your question is attributed to the European explorer Christopher Columbus. Columbus was of the belief that when he discovered North America, it was a sign that all the present earthly things were going to come to an end and be replaced with a "new heaven and new earth."</span>