Answer: Tokugawa´s seclusion edicts issued in the 1600s aimed to interrupt the rapid expansion of Christianity in Japan. Catholic converts were increasing in number, challenging Buddhism precepts and also acquiring political and economical power in important port cities as Nagasaki. Two edicts closed the borders for foreigners and prevented Japanese people from leaving the country.
Northern lawmakers were hesitant to go to war with Mexico because in the North people began to question the system as they increasingly viewed it as immoral and believed that it was wrong for person to enslave another. By starting a war with Mexico, they believe that the new territories would create more slave states and perpetuate the system further. Aside from that, President James Polk also wanted to acquire the territories of California, New Mexico and Oregon. Eventually war broke out when American troops to the Rio Grande and Nueces River regard as disputed territories.
Answer:
1. A
2. B
Explanation:
John Monroe was an American diplomat, lawyer and statesman who was elected as the fifth president of the United States of America, he served from 1817 to 1825. President Monroe was born on the 28th of April, 1758 in Monroe Hall, Virginia, United States of America.
After the War of 1812, the United States of America and Great Britain had series of improved relationships with one another. These mutual relationships gave rise to the signing of the 1817 Rush-Bagot Pact and Convention of 1818 which played a significant role in the resolution of longstanding boundary disputes with respect to the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
Under President James Monroe, the 49th parallel was set as the boundary between the United States and Canada by Convention of 1818, which was signed on the 20th of October, 1818 in London, United Kingdom.
On the 22nd of December, 1823, President Monroe published the "Monroe Doctrine" in which European Colonialism in America was strongly prohibited and as such the Western Hemisphere was forbidden to the European powers.
Hence, the main purpose of the Monroe Doctrine was to establish that the nations of Europe should not establish any new colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
Also, the United States agreed to not intervene in the affairs of Europe.
B because the trail of tears required the Indians to settle other places
By showing that the people could overpower the monarch
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