Answer: “ On this day in 1682, the fifth Duke of York (1633-1701), the son of England’s Charles I, awarded William Penn (1644-1718) a deed to the three counties that now make up the state of Delaware. Penn, a Quaker leader and an advocate of religious freedom, oversaw the founding of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities.
Penn successfully sought to acquire the tract — which had been transferred from Dutch to British authority — to ensure access to the Atlantic Ocean for the new colony. (In 1610, explorer Samuel Argall had named the Delaware River and Bay for the governor of Virginia, Thomas West, also known as Lord De La Warr.)”
Explanation:
Apartheid is specifically associated with South Africa - when there is a question mentioning this word, it's very likely that it's connected to this country. South Africa is also the correct answer here. Apartheid ended in 1994 and 1997 is the year when the new Constitution came into power.
Answer:
Society
Explanation:
Hobbes was a political philosopher who argued the necessity of a "social contract" (a government). Governments provide order and security. Without a government, the Earth would exist in a "state of nature", of lawlessness and chaos, and no society can exist in that type of environment.
Answer:
America is named after Amerigo Vespucci.
Explanation:
It is named after this man because he was the explorer who set forth the revolutionary concepts that the lands that Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a separate continent.
