Senator Jesse Thomas of Illinois then proposed the so-called Thomas
Proviso: If the north would admit Missouri as a slave state, the South
would agree to
outlaw slavery
above a line extending from the southern border of Missouri to spanish territtory.
It was<span> a </span>treaty between Portugal and Spain in 1494 in which they agreed to divide up all the land in the Americas between the two of them, no matter who was already living there. (I know, really stupid!) They divided the New World by drawing a line in the Atlantic Ocean, <span>All lands east of that line were claimed by Portugal. All lands west of that line were claimed by Spain.
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This is why m</span>ost Latin American nations are Spanish-speaking countries, for instance, but Portuguese is the leading official language<span> in Brazil, because Portugal took Brazil and Spain took most of the other nations. </span><span>
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Factors leading to globalization
The term for the significant growth in population following WWII is the "baby boom." We also now refer to those people as "baby boomers"
