The political issues that caused the most division in Washington, DC, as the United States moved westward in the 19th century, was whether each new state admitted to the Union would be "slave" or "free". The issue eventually resulted in the Civil War.
Social Darwinism most heavily affected the US government's relationship to big business during the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain as "the Gilded Age." The theory affected this relationship by convincing (or allowing politicians to convince themselves) that only the strongest will survive and thus the government operated under a <em>laissez-faire </em>system (French for "hands off"). The government felt it should not regulate or weigh in on business issues and instead let businesses conduct affairs amongst themselves; however, this led to the creation of large monopolies, the formation of a moneyed elite still with us today, and the creation of the now huge wealth gap between the richest and poorest Americans.
<span>Women had to obey the law but could not express their opinions in writing
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A great ruler of France that cared about learning was Napoleon.
The California Gold Rush brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States. Hope this helps!
