They were being taxed unfairly with out any input.
The American Revolution<span> demonstrated that it was plausible for Enlightenment ideas about </span>how<span> a government should be organized to actually be put into practice. Some </span>American<span> diplomats, like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, had lived in Paris, where they consorted freely with members of the </span>French<span> intellectual</span>
Banks failed in the 1930's because when the stock market crashed in 1929, they had lost thousands of dollars. You see, the banks had invested their customer's money in the stock market and lost it all when it crashed. Then, people came looking for their money to pay off their own debt, but the banks couldn't because they themselves did not have any money. So banks often suffered because they were in debt.
I'm not sure about the map but the reason that free and slave state boundaries didn't work is because they couldn't be agreed on.