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Patrick Henry was one of the freedom fighters and co-founders of America. When the British passed the Stamp Act in 1765, he passed a number of resolutions in the Virginia legislature which opposed the act. He declared that the Americans should be taxed only by their own representatives and thus people should pay no taxes unless passed by the colonist legislature. There began protests everywhere against the act which later forced the British to repeal the same.
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Explanation: It made it so that the people of the territory could determine for themselves wheter or not to permit slavery.
The Allies agreed that elections would be held in Soviet-occupied territories in Easter Europe because they wanted the occupied countries to become democratic. The USSR, on the other hand wants them to be communist, which ignites the Cold war.
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The Gilded Age was characterized by really fast industrial and economic growth, from the 1870s to the 1900s. It was named after Mark Twain's and Charles Dudley Warner's novel <em>The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today</em>, which satirically describes a difficult period of living, covered and hidden with gold gilding.
The rapid expansion of industrialization was accompanied by a huge advance in transportation (railways), technologies and manufacturing (heavy industry, factories, coal mining), causing huge expansion of immigration from Europe to America, high real wage growth and individual wealth. During these years, the U.S. economy had the fastest rate of growth, with high GDP, capital formation, real wage, etc.
