When Andrew Jackson was President he successfully established the spoils system. The spoils system is when family or friends of the president or vice president get government jobs even when other people are qualified to do the same jobs.
a) the spoils system
Germany had suffered heavy losses during the war, both in lives and industrial power. ... Millions of German prisoners of war were for several years used as forced labor, both by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
The desire for trade with Asia encouraged exploration of the Americas because in order to do so they had to search for a trade route. While doing so they landed in the Americas which was like unclaimed land to them so they explored it in order to gain it as their territory. The more land you had control over the more powerful the country was.
<span>The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is known as the r</span>ight of people to self-determination. This rule states that groups of people have right to choose their sovereignty, it means to decide that they want to form an independent state. The most important periods when this rule was applied were after the World War I, World War II and in the 1990s when many independent states emerged from former empires (the Great Britain or the Soviet Union) in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia.
Nowadays this rule is on the one hand accepted but on the other still controversial when it comes to rights of ethnicities which strive for independence (ex. Scotland from the UK, Catalonia from Spain or Palestina from Israel).
