.... of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to succeed from the Union. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North want .....

.... these disadvantage to a mighty empire known as they Aztec Empire. People say the empire was partially formed by a deeply believed legend. As the legend went it said that Aztec people would create a empire on in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus which is growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw while entering the new land. By the year 1325 their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the capital city aqueducts (piping) were constructed, bridges were built, and chinapas were made. Chinapas were little islands formed by pilled up mud. On these chi .....

.... be considered a small, unpopulated state, into what it is now. California is now one of the most populated states and it was mostly the gold rush that brought attention to California. As the government saw all of this happening, they realized that California was much more important than they ever realized. In their realization, they decided that California must be protected. San Francisco has one of the largest bays in all of California, and so this was where enemy countries would most likely to try to invade the country. So this is where was to lie, to serve as a military fort. It was supposed to serve as a secondary base in companionship to another base .....

.... the President is superior to the average man. He felt that official duties, including the Presidency, could be made “so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance.” He had a strong belief in equality and introduced a policy in which all adult white males could vote and hold office. In the past, a small majority of Americans were allowed to vote. In his attempt t provide equality for all, he introduced the spoils system which replaced the caucus system used in the past and is still in use today. He was also the first President to be elected by a National Convention as well. Jackson believed in a strong pre .....

.... their long history of being a colony prompted the oppressed people to fight for their independence in the French-Indochina war. 7 Ho Chi Min, a leader of the Communist party, organized the Vietnamese independence movement, Viet Minh. Asking for support from America first, Ho Chi Min did not want to have to turn to communist support for the freedom of his people. Since the United States viewed helping Ho gain his independence from France as a move against their own allies, they declined. It was only after Russia and China offered to help that Ho adopted communist ideals and wanted to make all of Vietnam communist. The Vietnam war started simply because Ho Chi Mi .....

.... and the US were caught by the idea of conquering a weaker nation and expanding our economy. American imperialism increased Americans aggression backed by the belief of Manifest Destiny which many Americans supported. Spain committed many acts of war and Americans believed these helped cause the Spanish-American War: - Restricted Cuban independence - Cuban placed in Concentration Camps - Refused to give them independence - The DeLome Letter - Sinking of the Maine - Yellow Journalism When Spain slaughtered Cubans in the Concentration Camps many Americans were outraged. Cuba had begun to declare independence from Spain so they were placed in these camps. Su .....

.... of power over their employees. With unions on the scene, that power must be shared. The standard economic analysis of what gave a particular union the power to raise the pay and benefits of its members was propounded by the eminent English economist Alfred Marshall toward the end of the 19th century. Marshall theorized that the strength of a union depended upon four factors. First, demand for the product should be inelastic, so that there is little, if any, decline in sales in response to price increases. Second, labor costs should be a small portion of the total costs of production, so that a rather large increase in wages would generate only a small in .....

.... contributed to Yugoslavia's breakup. From 1946 to 1991, Yugoslavia was a federal state consisting of six republics. In 1991 and 1992, four of the republics--Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia--declared their independence. Fighting then broke out between Serbs and other ethnic groups in Croatia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. As a result of this fighting, Serbian forces occupied about 30 percent of Croatia's territory and about two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina. A cease-fire ended most of the fighting in Croatia in January 1992. But in May 1995, Croatian government forces began to take back the areas that were held by the Serbs. .....