<span>The Americans did not want a king in charge of their government/country. </span>
<span>In 1492 Italian Spanish navigator Christopher Columbus reached the Americas and claimed the new lands for Castile. </span>
In 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi took the oath of office. It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps.
If the same percentage of Americans were to be killed in a war fought ... in all the other wars fought by the United States in the 19th century combined. ... the discovery of gold there in 1848, they organized a state government and .... The articles that follow focus on key aspects of the four-year conflict that not ...
