Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to American trade because if American relations with Great Britain were poor, affairs with Spain were worse. Spain, which held Florida as well as lands west of the Mississippi River, was anxious to halt American expansion into the territory it claimed. As a result, Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to American shipping in 1784.
<span>B. The Speaker leads the House; the Vice President leads the Senate.
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The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act actually strengthen the system of checks and balances between the legislative and executive branches. In effect, part of the complete title of the Act states itself : "...to establish a procedure providing congressional control over the impoundment of funds by the executive branch..."
George Washington rose to prominence in the French and Indian War.
Land prices in the east were getting expensive and the great plains were offering an oppurtunity to own more land
