Tea Act of 1773, which caused the boston tea party in the same year leading up to a war 2 years later.
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An "economic motive"-if we have to resort to definitions. -is that tendency in human beings to calculate the costs and the. returns involved in pursuing a certain desirable end and to choose. that line of action which will give one the greatest returns in propor- tion to the expenditure of effort involved.
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery<span> would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.</span>
