Each candidate had a solid regional base, but none had the support of all regions.
President Polk wrote this address to Congress on May 11, 1846 to the Senate and the House of Representatives:
The existing state of the relations between the United States and Mexico renders it proper that I should bring the subject to the consideration of Congress. In my message at the commencement of your present session, the state of these relations, the causes which led to the suspension of diplomatic intercourse between the two countries in March, 1845, and the long-continued and unredressed wrongs and injuries committed by the Mexican Government on citizens of the United States in their persons and property were briefly set forth.
As the facts and opinions which were then laid before you were carefully considered, I can not better express my present convictions of the condition of affairs up to that time than by referring you to that communication.
Answer:
1. Great grandparents who endured the "great depression."
2. Grandparents who served during the Vietnam war.
3. Parents who served during Desert Storm.
4. Young adult who now serves in Afghanistan.
Explanation:
Normative age-graded influences are those influences within the life course that are correlated with chronological age. For example, marriage and retirement are two normative age-graded influences. These influences are the result of either biological or environmental determinants or an interaction of the two.
The "Scramble for Africa" had its roots in European politics.
