Signed on 13 April 1598, the Edict of Nantes granted rights to France's Calvinist Protestants, known as Huguenots. ... Huguenots were to be entitled to worship freely everywhere in France in private, and publicly in some 200 named towns and on the estates of Protestant landowners.
When Spain was defeated, Cuba gain their independence and the U.S. gained Puerto Rico, Philipnes, and Guam. This also made the U.S. become a political power in world affairs.
