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the Great Compromise set up a bicameral legislature in which the House of Representatives had representation proportional to a states population and the Senate had equal representation (2 senators per state) regardless of state population
Answer: When the United States started it came up with the Articles of Confederation, which served to frame how the United States should conduct things as a government. However, this system did not work and riots broke out like the Shays Rebellion, which was made up of farmers and veterans who ransacked a bank in hopes of getting what they were owed by participating. To revolutionary war. While the rebellion was quelled, it served to show the "big wigs" that the Articles of Confederation would not work, triggering the Second Continental Congress in which the Founding Fathers realized that if taxation without representation was absurd, they had to have a system to tax people. After that, it was evident that taxes were necessary for a capitalist system and are the norm in America today.
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There was great wealth in the South, but it was primarily tied up in the slave economy. In 1860, the economic value of slaves in the United States exceeded the invested value of all of the nation's railroads, factories, and banks combined. On the eve of the Civil War, cotton prices were at an all-time high.
Europeans were in conflict over the Caribbean regions because sugar production had become big business, and by the 1700's French and English<span>Caribbean exports surpassed the whole North American exports to Europe.</span>
