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They began trade with other people to create money and get new crops
The Great Depression is an effect of the stock market crash
James Madison played a great role in establishment of the US as a republic. During the writing of the constitution, the founding fathers were adamant that they wanted democratic system of governance. However, they were torn between a direct democracy and a republican democracy. James Madison dismissed a direct democracy since the US is a large country and thus impossible to be governed through direct pure democracy. Instead, the father of the constitution argued for a scheme of representation in a republican setting. He especially lauded such a government since it even catered for the rights of the minority than in direct democracies.
C) Texas sought to gain independence from Mexico, due to Mexico's government changing from a democracy to a dictatorship.
Texas saw the laws in Mexico as arbitrary and tyrannic in many ways. It reminded them of how British used to treat the colonies, maybe worse. They did not want to follow the rules of Mexico.
Lyndon Johnson and his push for civil rights for African Americans.
Johnson continued the push for civil rights that had been started by President John F. Kennedy. In the emotional days after JFK's assassination, President Johnson said in an address to Congress: "<span>No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed within months after the Kennedy assassination. The act outlawed discrimination in public places and in employment practices, and provided for integration of public schools.
Incidentally, in defense of Gerald Ford and his fight against high unemployment -- by the end of Ford's term in office, the unemployment rate had begun to improve. But it was too little, too late, and his reelection bid failed. (Voters also were reacting against the Republican administration due to the Nixon Watergate scandal.)</span>
