It's believed that the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable British naval blockade of France – combined with French economic difficulties – may have prompted Napoleon to offer Louisiana for sale to the United States.
For almost every situation, the best listening response is paraphrasing. Paraphrasing refers to restatement of a text or speech. In every situation you can <span>express the meaning of the speech the other said using different words.
</span><span>You can use different words to express the same idea or meaning.</span>
The social forces that reshaped the United States in its first half century were profound. Western expansion, growing racial conflict, unprecedented economic changes linked to the early Industrial Revolution, and the development of a stronger American Protestantism in the Second Great Awakening all overlapped with one another in ways that were both complementary and contradictory. Furthermore, these changes all had a direct impact on American political culture that attempted to make sense of how these varied impulses had transformed the country. The changing character of American politics can be divided into two time periods separated by the War of 1812. In the early republic that preceded the war, "REPUBLICANISM" had been the guiding political value. Although an unquestioned assault on the aristocratic ideal of the colonial era, republicanism also included a deep fear of the threat to public order posed by the decline of traditional values of hierarchy and inequality
