William M.Tweed was the leader of Tammany hall
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John Jay is best known as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, serving from September 1789 to June 1795. He was born in New York City, New York. He also lived in Rye, Bedford, Katonah, and Westchester County, all in New York.
Answer:mexicans already inhabited the land, but the US wanted to own it
Explanation:
The African states were in a very big mess after they gained independence. The reasons for that were numerous. In the same boundaries there multiple people from ethnic groups that traditionally had lot of tensions between them, different religions that were not fond of one another was also existing in the same territories, lot of leaders turned out to be dictators, and also lot of the people that turned out to run the countries did not had political experience.
All of that resulted in lot of violence, separatist movements, genocides, coups, civil wars, further partition of the countries. The ordinary people suffered the most, as always, living on terrible poverty and constantly being on alert because the safety was non-existent.