For the answer to the question above, are you referring to colonial period?
because during the colonial period, European women in America remained entitled to the legal protections provided by imperial authorities, even when they occupied unfree statuses, such as indentured servitude. For instance, when masters or mistresses mistreated their indentured servant women physically violated the terms of their labor contracts, the servants had a right to complain at the local court for redress; in some jurisdictions, their pleas met with remedies from the bench. Nevertheless, patriarchal models of authority prevailed, and despite their access to the courts, indentured women remained restricted by a series of laws that gave their masters extensive powers over them. They could not marry or travel while under contract, and if they ran away, became pregnant, or challenged their masters, they would be penalized with extra terms of service. While the law in Virginia, for instance, penalized masters who impregnated their servant women by freeing the latter, at the same time the statute averred that such women might be unfairly “induced to lay all their illegitimate to their masters” in order to gain their freedom. The statutory language is clearly indicative of class-based notions of dissolute sexuality. Indeed, the statutes enacted across imperial North America, like those iterated above, were devoted to creating and enforcing differences among women on the basis of not only race but class as well.
<span>This is of course somewhat of a subjective question, but in general most would agree that in general expansion was not justifiable since the Mexicans and Natives were doing nothing to provoke the US. One could argue it was justifiable since Americans needed more land. </span>
It helped bring the state out of a Depression by providing
jobs in the military. Many Americans who fought in that war came
from South Carolina. The State had a
camp where soldiers trained in preparation for that war called Camp Wetherell. South Carolina also supplied funds for its
citizens who joined the war and fought against the Spaniards. Unions were created in the 1800 to 1. to
improve working conditions for industrial workers. Many workers were working in dangerous
conditions with very little pay and they were no longer in favor of such conditions
that they formed unions.
Slavery in the Western Territories. To many nineteenth century Americans, the expansion of slavery into Western territories caused a great deal of controversy. ... The federal government, hoping to prevent a civil war, temporarily resolved the issue with compromises.
