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The first President of the United States was George Washington, who led the U.S. Continental Army to victory over the United Kingdom during the American Revolutionary war. He served 2 terms before retiring, setting a standard for presidents of late to follow.
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The Grangers, who were largely poor farmers, battled with the giant railroad companies by inviting people to join them to take political actions so the government could hear their demands. The Grangers supported politicians who wanted to run for office or be representatives. Grangers wanted legislators to support legislation that could help in resolving their problems. After so much hard work and effort, Congressmen passed legislation that established maximum freight rates, passenger rates and did not allow any kind of discrimination. For this to happen, Grangers had to get the support from farmers in the Southeast, west, and midwest of the United States.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported.
<span>Rivers linked the Byzantines to the Russians. Trade occurred between the two cultures, so the Russians got supplies and ideas they would not have otherwise gotten.Trade brought Kiev into the Byzantine's influence. Also, the Byzantines had a strong hand in the Eastern Orthodox church, which converted Slavs via missionaries.</span>
