The political issues that caused the most division in Washington, DC, as the United States moved westward in the 19th century, was whether each new state admitted to the Union would be "slave" or "free". The issue eventually resulted in the Civil War.
Answer:
What accounted for the shift was the same thing that accounted for the shift in other parts of the world: the development of agriculture.
Explanation:
When a society develops agriculture, it shifts from being nomadic to being sedentary. This is because of two main, intertwined reasons:
The first is that growing crops is a burdensome activity that demands a lot of time, and care: ploughing the land, planting the seeds, tending the crops, caring for them, and picking them in time of harvest. This makes growing crops clash with a nomadic lifestyle.
The second reason is that agriculture is a more efficient way to produce food than hunting or gathering. Agriculture does produce a steady supply of food when the crops do not fail, while gathering and hunting hardly produces what is necessary for survival. This is an incentive for early societies to develop agriculture.
Answer:
"Roosevelt's foreign policy was more aggressive, and it was aptly titled the "big stick" policy. Taft, on the other hand, used the foreign policy strategy of what he termed Dollar Diplomacy. Rather than relying on the military to spread and protect American interests abroad, Taft relied on the financial strength of large corporations to extend American influence"
Explanation:
The Bush Doctrine was a doctrine of preemption that involved both a major assertion of Presidential authority and potentially lowering the threshold of war.
Unquestionably threatened to weaken, even destroy important internal checks on presidential power
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