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True, the middle class families moved to the cities and urban areas in massive numbers
You could find it on the internet
Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition in 1853 to Tokyo to force trade with Japan displayed the use of "gunboat diplomacy" by the united states, since the United States was threatening (by implication) to use force if diplomacy failed.
<span>England was distracted, and the colonies were largely left to their own devices during the civil war in England.
During the English civil war, England let the colonies alone for twenty years. England was consumed with and distracted by domestic matters. This gave the colonies some independence to form a new land, with new ideas, and emerging political philosophies.</span>
The Russian term glasnost refers policies that are generally "transparent"--meaning that the general public can "see" into the workings of government. Perestroika had to do more with "reconstructing" Russian policies to fit a more modern world.
