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The seventeenth Amendment allowed the people to vote for senators without the electoral college. After the Amendment citizens could directly vote for those in the senate, though voting for the president will still require the electoral college.
A lack of educated work force
The most probable reason why the Founding Fathers wanted to
create a government of free people was because the United States used to be a
colony of different colonizers. They wanted their people free from these
regimes so they conquered these colonizers and created a government that would
govern their people.
Nixon's actions of giving aid in the Yom Kippur War resulted in the first shortage of petroleum.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC halted the export of oil to the United States as retaliation for the support of United States to Israel.