The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.
The Intolerable Acts was the<span> term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 </span>after<span> the Boston Tea Party.
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The main reason why the South was so upset by Lincoln’s election in 1860 is because he had made it clear that he was opposed to slavery, which was the primary driving force of the South's economy.
Copernicus was going up against everything and everyone, namely the Church. Copernicus would put forth the idea the heliocentric universe. This meant that the sun was at the center and not the earth. This could be taken to mean (and was by many) that God had not placed Man at the Center of the Universe. The idea that there was more that could occupy God than our existence and we were not the most important creature or thing was mind blowing.
The declaration of Independence was to declare Independence from great Brittan. they were basically tired of King George the third and said that they were thier own independent country. they later sent that to king george the third with everyone's signature. after the declaration of Independence was signed in soon to be America, the church bells rang and almost all that heard the bells rejoiced.
