The main reason why the Harding administration responded to growing public fears of communists and anarchists is because it did not want to seem "weak" in the eyes of Harding's adversaries, who were looking to replace him in office.
The Indigenous population was reduced, so enslaved Africans were forced to work on the sugar plantations.
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In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Britain. With the help of France and Spain, they defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War. In the Treaty of Paris (1783), Britain officially recognized the independence of the United States of America.
The Continental Congress created the Continental Association, an agreement to boycott British goods. Additionally, it was decided that if the Coercive Acts were not reversed after a year, goods were to stop being exported to Great Britain as well.