The rise of the kuomintang led to the overthrow of the

The rise of the Kuomintang led to the overthrowing of the Qing Emperor and the ending of the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Kuomintang is actually a Chinese political party that ruled the country of China from the 1927 to 1948/ The party was established in the year 1912 by a person named Sun Yat-sen. 

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.