It warned Roosevelt that Germany was developing an atomic bomb and encouraged him to start a nuclear program in the US that later became the Manhattan Project
Because the more you spread out the power, the less one person has. Therefore, the more people that have power, the tyrant will have less power.
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Without the transistor, you wouldn't for starters be able to have computers, let alone the internet. Transistors are found on microchips and without them there would be no modern electronics. Cell phones, cars, tvs, cameras, house hold appliances, anything with microchips in it has transistors, and without them they couldn't work. How important it is for electronic communication is seen in the idea that there wouldn't be cell phones or computers without them.
It allowed Missouri and then Maine (which also applied for statehood) to become states. A lot of states were on the edge on wether to admit or not allow a state that allows slavery into the states. In the end - both were admitted and became states. However, Missouri was left as a slave state and Maine was set as a free state.