The Wade- Davis Bill was introduced after the Civil War. The goal of this bill was to help the Confederate states rejoin the Union after meeting certain requirements.
In this case, the Wade- Davis Bill wanted a majority of the population within a respective southern state to take the Ironclad oath. This oath essentially says that these individuals never supported the Confederacy in the past. This oath was supposed to prove these citizens loyalty to the United States moving forward.
Even though this is passed in Congress, it is pocket vetoed by Lincoln and never gets implemented into US society.
The opium wars forced the Chinese to open Chinese ports to western governments and made the trade in opuim legal .
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1 Excessive Spending. A central economic problem facing France throughout the late 1700s was unsupportable levels of government spending. ...
2 Poor Tax Collection. While French spending was growing larger, its tax revenues were shrinking.
3 Income Inequality.
4 Skyrocketing Food Prices.
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The Pilgrims decided to leave Europe because they wanted to escape religious persecution. At this time, there was not religious freedom in Europe. The British monarch decided upon the religion and that was the religion everyone adhered to. The Pilgrims were known as Separatists because they were separate from the Church of England. To maintain their religious freedom, they left Europe.
