The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
Because colonies had little money to invest in industry.
AP Euro? Western Civ? Ugh. :p
Voltaire was a new thinker--he speculated that the people had a voice! He thought that the people needed to rise and take action, a call to arms, if you will. He's basically saying 'if someone were peeing on your face, you as a Christian would do nothing'.
Porfirio Diaz was a former Mexican general and president of Mexico, while Jose Marti Cuban was a famous Cuban writer and was also considered as the country's national hero. On the other hand, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979 and Salvador Allende was the first Marxist president of the Latin America.
