The complex naval event in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, that was presented to the U.S. Congress on August 5, 1964, as two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and that led to the Gulf of Tonkin
Answer: the immediate aftermath of the battle was enough of a victory to give president Lincoln the confidence ti release the Emancipation Proclamation which declared an end to slavery in Confederate territory.
Federalists want a representative democracy "The ancient democracies of Greece were characterized by tyranny and run by mobs"