The eventual dwindling of the women’s rights movement was hastened by NOW’s singular focus on passage of the ERA. Owing to the efforts of women such as Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem, the ERA passed Congress in 1972. But its ratification by the states became a rallying point for the backlash against feminism. Anti-feminists such as Phyllis Schlafly organized a crusade against the amendment, warning—correctly or not—that it would, among other things, invalidate state sodomy laws, outlaw single-sex restrooms in public places, legalize same-sex marriage, and make taxpayer-funded abortion a constitutional right. Needing ratification by 38 states within 10 years of its passage by Congress, the amendment fell three states short.
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WESTWARD MOVEMENT
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Examine how U.S. westward movement and the annexation of Texas sparked the Mexican-American War
Examine how U.S. westward movement and the annexation of Texas sparked the Mexican-American War
Begun when the United States annexed Texas, the Mexican-American War ended with the United States acquiring much of what is now the American Southwest.
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Westward movement, the populating by Europeans of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States, a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the Atlantic coast. The first British settlers in the New World stayed close to the Atlantic, their lifeline to needed supplies from England. By the 1630s, however, Massachusetts Bay colonists were pushing into the Connecticut River valley. Resistance from the French and Native Americans slowed their movement westward, yet by the 1750s northern American colonists had occupied most of New England
<span>Hamilton wanted to build a fiscally strong Federal government. However, some of the Southern states rejected the assumption of state debt by this new government. In the Compromise of 1790, Hamilton got key southern supporters to agree to the debt assumption in exchange for locating the new national capital in the south. Without this agreement, the United States of American would likely not exist as it does today.</span>
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The Unions victory showed that a stronger central government is more effective, and the federal government owned the south for years after that to help rebuild from the civil war, giving them much more power over the south.
