IN this quote Benjamin Franklin is referencing the failed "Albany Plan," since this was his idea, in which the colonies would have formed a loose union in order to better manage taxes.
Do you want vague details? Westward expansion was when the colonists began pushing West and migrating past the mountains further into Northern America. As this happened relationships with the Native Americans intensified as colonists began forcing more and more Native Americans off of their lands.
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... discourage African Americans from voting.
Poll taxes means you have to pay a tax before allowed to vote. That's a way of preventing poor persons (like blacks in the South) from voting.
In addition to poll taxes, other measures were also used to block blacks from participating in the voting process. For instance, literacy tests would require persons to pass certain standards of reading and writing in order to qualify for voting. These tests were aimed at blacks, who had not had access to the same education as whites.
I’m not sure which four rights you are referring, so I’ll make an educated assumption.
1. Freedom of the press has been expanded with information now being harder to control
2. Basic civil rights have been expanded, such as freedom of movement with the abolition of Southern Jim Crow laws
3. The right to vote has been granted to members of minority groups, and women voting has become more culturally accepted
4. Pay has been made much more equal, equal work leads to equal pay despite the sex or race of the individual
