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- Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
- The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
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The southern states wanted to(govern) themselves at first.
In 1781 the coin shilling was worth 75 times more than a paper shilling, because of that, all debts should be paid with coin and not paper. Farmers were especially moved by that and many of them had to sell their farms to get money and pay debts. With that, Daniel Shay - a former captain in the continental army - led an army of farmers in a revolt that was called Shay’s Rebellion. They demanded tax relief and a moratorium on debt collection. In the end, the rebellion was put down but it pushed the federal government to provide economic relief.
The court had declined new deal measures for the Great Depression.
Big Stick policy, in American history, policy popularized and named by Theodore Roosevelt that asserted U.S. domination when such dominance was considered the moral imperative.
Roosevelt used this phrase to explain his relations with domestic political leaders and his approach to such issues as the regulation of monopolies and the demands of trade unions.
