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.
The correct answer is: "They were able to secure free land and pay lower taxes".
The settlements established in the Albermarle region, where first permanent English settlements in the current territory of North Carolina. Most of the newcomers in the region, where settlers migrating South from Virginia.
For example, the first settler on the region was George Durant that purchased land for the Indians in 1663. Some people followed him because it was not regulated that the settlers arriving in the regionhad to obtain grants from the Assembly of Virginia, to establish themselves on those territories, until 1665.
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. ... Kansas was admitted as a free state in January 1861 only weeks after eight Southern states seceded from the union.Oct 29, 2009
Foreign tariffs & the gold standard
