It also set the boundary between future free and slave states along the 36°30′ parallel in the Louisiana Territory.
The compromise maintained a balance between the free and slave states in the Senate and temporarily ended the sectionalist conflict over slavery,
but the question of slavery in the new western territories remained unresolved and it was a contributing factor to the Civil War.
The arrival of Europeans in America is part of the so-called geographical discoveries. The causes will be economic, scientific and political:Europe wanted to find a direct route to reach the so-called spice islands. After the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, the desire became a neces
GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT The Chachapoya Culture developed between the years 800 and 1,470 AD, in the northeastern region of Peru, located in the department of Amazonas, covering territories that belong to the Equatorial Dry Forest and the High Forest, in an extension of almost 300 km in length and a
Francisco Pizarro and the Spaniards arrived in Pachacámac at the end of 1534. They came from Jauja looking for a place to found the capital of Peru. On January 6, 1535, a group of soldiers went to explore the Rímac Valley. A week later the expedition returned saying that they had found the perfect p
The discovery of Juanita on the top of Apu Ampato has revealed that the Incas made human sacrifices and has shown that the ancestors of Andean man are on the Isthmus of Panama. El Ampato, one of the apus, exposes Juanita Johan Reinhard, the gringo, had been doing adventure tourism since he was 15 y