Jimmy Carter while in Presidency was faced with five challenges which include; Inflation, Slow growth, Unemployment, Stagflation, and The second oil shock. This made it so President Carter persuaded the people into conservation and less spending. Companies were made to only pay 7% with any contracts they made new and old and the oil shock, which came from the iran revolution, made it so the people became more conservative and made oil cheaper by having to not pay for what wasn't used.
In 1859 50% of the nations wealth, stocks, bonds, land, cash was in slaves owned by southerners. They lost everything. The north pay less on the south slavery was not finish and they where trying to go to the north for better jobs and freedom the south had force slaves to work.
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