<span>Westward Expansion and the American Civil War. To many nineteenth century Americans, the expansion of slavery into Western territories caused a great deal of controversy. ... These fears were realized when the expansion of slavery into western territories entered Congressional debates</span>
<em>Many loyalists fled to Canada after the American Revolution.</em>
Answer: <em>C) They fled to Canada to avoid punishment.</em>
Explanation:
The loyalists fled to Canada after the American Revolution. As the American Revolution gave freedom to the enslaved Africans and Indians Around 80,000 of them fled to Canada and Britain. Because they were wealthy, educated and older.
They often suffered bad treatment from the patriots and therefore, had to flee from their own homes. Even after the war there were some people who remained loyal to the British crown. And so the American colonists would often treat them brutally.
The correct answer is: D. They believed that representatives were better able to vote on national issues than ordinary citizens were.
Explanation
The excerpt contrasts ancient democracies, that were characterized by tyranny and run by mobs, to the idea of a large government representation so as to demostrate that whenevever a group of people is assembled, no matter who is in it, they tend to make the wrong decisions, that is, decisions led by passion instead of reason as stated in the excerpt:
"<em>passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason".</em>
Moreover, Federalists wanted a strong national government, instead of granting the power to the states, and believed that only one person could represent 30.000 people.
During the expansion of the Islamic caliphate, the Muslim
rule was often preferred to the Persian or the byzantine because of the main
reason that the caliphate extracts few taxes from its conquered populations
than the empire that it resides.
