The US paid certain “contributions”, not taxes, (but you might call those contributions coming from US taxes anyway) to the Barbary States, a string of North African ports, such as Oran, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, mainly dominated by pirates, aka Barbary corsaires, that were nominally subdued to Ottoman Empire.
A presidential candidate promotes a "campaign platform" during the campaign, the goals of which generally transfer the goals into the "presidential agenda".
A Native American uses a rifle to hunt buffalo (B). Before the Columbian Exchange, no modern weapons reached the Americas. Natives hunted with the tools and techniques they had been using for hundreds of years.
