January 29, 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States; it would go into effect the following January.
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 was very much significant for the Americans as it formally ended the American Revolutionary War. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
After the treaty, The British acknowledged the independence of the United States and the colonial empire of Great Britain was destroyed in North America.
The Homestead Act was attractive to settlers, because it gave land to anyone over 21, or head of family (even women and former slaves), who applied for land, this land for a very cheap price (or no price at all) and through this it enabled easy settlement. The farmers had to then cultivate the land for a period of time, and if they did not abandon it and tended to it properly, it became their property.
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Mercantilism isn't about making the most efficient economy; it's about trying to make a country wealthy by accumulating gold and silver.
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had proven that Germany and mexico were allies
also promised that if war was the break out with the US, Germany promised to mexico their lost territory.
