We elect senators and representatives for the House. They basically make up what the people who elected them wants, but some are corrupt so they don't really listen to the people. They mainly listen to the people who fund their campaigns. What we do have are the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Amendments to protect our rights such as forcing the person we elected to do what we want, because if they don't we can "fire" them and elect new ones. (petition)
Free silver is one of the major economic policy started in the late 19th century.
Explanation:
The main objective of free silver movement leads to acceptance of mints and this will lead to the process of silver bullion following a principle that is after processing the silver coin the coins are paid to the depositors . The silver coins' monetary value dependent on government fiat , it did not depend on the commodity value of various content and thus leading to silver strikes and thus the price of the silver fell.
Many organisations wanted inflationary monetary policies that would help debtors to pay their debts at a cheaper rate as well as with dollars that was readily available and those suffered due to this policy were the creditors, they were mainly the landlords and the banks.
It would be difficult for the United States for two reasons, the fact that none of the land was mapped other than the areas that previous voyagers had gone through, and the natural landscape of the area, and last, Native American Hostility.
Three examples: When pioneers would voyage to the west, there would often be encounters were they would be attacked by animals that had not been seen before, bears, sneaks, different wolves, and many more. They barely knew the natural resources of the area, such as food, etc.
The next example, no mapping, would be difficult because for the most part, they had no sense of navigation except for the few maps that had been made, even then, would be difficult to navigate.
Native Americans did not appreciate the pioneers coming into the land they considered their own, they resembled hostility and would even kill the civilians that would travel through the land, or capture them.
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