The Pilgrims decided to leave Europe because they wanted to escape religious persecution. At this time, there was not religious freedom in Europe. The British monarch decided upon the religion and that was the religion everyone adhered to. The Pilgrims were known as Separatists because they were separate from the Church of England. To maintain their religious freedom, they left Europe.
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The 36°30' North line is the line of latitude that was agreed in the Missouri Compromise to determine the slave status of new states to be admitted into the Union, west of the Mississippi River. States south of the line would be considered slave states and north would be free states.
States today that would be south of the line;
- Oklahoma
- Arizona
- New Mexico
States today that would be north of the line;
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A.
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989
During the 1848 Springtime of Peoples, revolutionaries in the Italian states established "republics", since they were democratic in nature, although they soon fell to tyrannical rule.
