Civic engagement:
Basically reaching out to the public helping to gain their votes AND actually following through with them because they could turn on them and not want to vote for them
The Gadsden Purchase was a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the U.S. Minister to Mexico, and General Antonio de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico on December 30, 1853 in Mexico City. It was an Agreement between the United States and Mexico to give a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico in exchange for $10 million.
Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina
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Not only did it renew the morale of the American public, but it convinced potential foreign partners, such as France, that American could win the war<span>, and that it might be in their best interests to send aid.</span>