President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese<span> planes </span>attacked<span> the </span>United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor<span>, Hawaii Territory. The </span>bombing<span> killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the </span>American<span> battleship U.S.S.</span>
The American colonies of 1760, did many Americans consider themselves British? Did they consider themselves Englishmen, even if born in the colonies? Also, am I right in the impression that a resident of Massachusetts would be the least likely to identify as British? That they were the most independent minded, even in 1760?
The main goals of Reconstruction in the South were to reestablish federal control in the South. Another important goal was to facilitate the transition of more than 4 million enslaved people from slavery to freedom. Another goal was to rebuild the infrastructure of the South and restore the seceded states to the Union.
