<span>a fiscal crisis in urban areas</span>
The smallpox epidemic.
The millitary invasion was devastating but not to the extent of smallpox.
The Jesuits did not really devastate the New World.
Enslavement for sugar plantations mostly occurred with Africans.
Smallpox, brought in by the Columbian Exchange, had a widespread impact that killed a large portion of natives in the Americas.
So the Smallpox epidemic is the answer.
The election of 1866 gave them control of both houses of congress.
C. THe puritans wanted every person to be able to read the bible