Divisions between the states, and border disputes with Britain and Spain.
The ring is represented by the dark red circle victims would get once they got the illness. The pocket full posies symbolizes that people would carry around flowers because there were so many people dying so it smelled really bad and the patients themselves smelled bad
President Obama's first inauguration was held during the depths of the Great Recession. The situation was dire; the economy had lost nearly 3.6 million jobs in 2008 and was shedding jobs at a nearly 800,000 per month rate when he took office.
Democracy was created by humans to give us order and strict government. This text is saying there were other options before that. (I have taken a political science class) and an example of another option could be fulfilling Locke’s State Of Nature (where humans are just humans with no laws or boundaries). Democracy is not inevitable because there were other unexplored options before it.