March of 1932. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Their occupation lasted until the Soviet Union and Mongolia launched the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the Confederate states, therefore encouraging them to rise up.
Benjamin Banneker was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. :)
Manifest Destiny, or the belief that it was American's God-Given-Right/ responsibility to expand the United States boarders from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People moved west because there was rich land for farming, opportunities for business or self advancement.