I would think most "Americans" are lazy and are just looking for a way out of taking the blame for why the u.s. is spiraling downward and so would a few other people but probably Most people in the country today would define an American as an independent and self reliant individual with strong family ties and strong loyalties to groups, individuality and individual rights.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of action
Confederate general Robert E. Lee hoped for the destruction of the Union Army and subsequently Lincoln's surrender.
Lee knew he was a superior field commander and had greatly superior team of generals working for him at Gettysburg. He also knew that the greatest part of the Union army was in the North so he wanted to destroy it and then head towards the capital for Lincoln's surrender.
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but it is now a former member of the OPEC
Answer: B. keep the balance of power in the Senate between the slave states and free states.
Further detail:
The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state with Maine being added at the same time to keep the balance of slave and free states equal. It also prohibited any future slave states north of the latitude line 36 1/2 degrees north of the equator in territories of the Louisiana Purchase, with the exception of Missouri (north of that line) being admitted as a slave state.