The compass, the astrolabe (instrument used to measure latitude), and the rudder <span>all helped European explorers on their quest to find Asia and get rich by by </span><span>buying spices there and selling them in Europe to get a profit.
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The enforcement Acts were acts recommended by Grant and imposeed by congress to try to protect black voters from intimidation and violence.
<span>The government agents in the Indian reservation system were representatives of a paternalistic and bureaucratic system whose purpose was to keep the First Nations down economically, politically and culturally and dependent on the state for their existence. In Canada the First Nations are gradually gaining independence and self-reliance as they prosecute their land claims and fight for their rights to the land and resources and to protect Mother Earth, alongside concerned white people.</span>
<span>The supreme law of the land is made from a collection of all the federal laws that preceded the formation of the constitution, the actual constitution itself as it is the defining form of our nations laws and legal rights of the citizens and any treaties that were made from under the laws set forth to allot abilities and powers under the three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.</span>
