Guilds were associations of people from the same industry: artisans and merchants who controlled their field, that is controlled what and how the services could be. They controlled the tools and the procedure of production and services.
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controlled how their industry operated
There was great tension between pro-slavery and anti-slavery representatives over how new territories won would handle the issue of slavery.
The Mexican-American War and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, forced onto the remnant Mexican government, drew some criticism in the U.S. for their casualties, monetary cost, and heavy-handedness. Furthermore, the question of how to treat the new acquisitions also intensified the debate over slavery and in many ways inflamed it, as potential westward expansion of the institution took an increasingly central and heated theme in national debates preceding the American Civil War.
He's listing them in order of the time as it builds up. I forgot the name, but it starts with a "C".
A tax put on a good or service is an indirect tax.
