The Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. Washington was selected over other candidates such as John Hancock based on his previous military experience and the hope that a leader from Virginia could help unite the colonies.
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The general opinion of many Americans at the time of the purchase was that Jefferson was being hypocritical by going through with it. Jefferson was known to have a strict interpretation of the Constitution and believed the president only had the powers the Constitution gave him. Since there was no Constitutional precedent for buying land to add territory to the United States, there was theoretically no Constitutional authority for the president to buy the land.
Many of those in the Federalist party (the opposing party to Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans) believed that he would have objected on Constitutional grounds if any of them had tried to do the same thing. Therefore, the Federalists were very much opposed to the purchase. They also believed that by buying land from France, they would alienate Great Britain, whom they wanted as a close ally.
Charles Martel's victory at the Battle of Tours was significant because if he had lost and if <span>the Muslims had won, western Europe might have become part of the Muslim Empire.</span>
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B. Arab Spring
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The Arab Spring started in 2010 in Tunisia.
From Tunisia, it spread to the rest of the Arab world by 2011.
Most of the protestors were young people who demanded government changes.
In some countries, the Arab Spring was successful. In Tunisia, the former president resigned after more than two decades in power, and the country became a democracy. The same happened in Algeria.
In other countries, the Arab Spring only led to minor changes (Bahrain, Jordan), in Egypt, the government was overthrown but replaced by a new regime, and in Libya and Syria, the protests escalated and became civil wars.
