Currency, gentlemen, wealthy, grand ?
Radical evangelists threatened the privilege of the colonial elite. This is because of their role in exposing and taming incompetent ministers. By exposing and attacking the luxurious excesses of the colonial elite, they posed a threat in disrupting the social order.
Failed compromises--Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
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After the gaining of land following the Mexican-American War, the Missouri Compromise was thrown out. After that was a series of compromises put into place which essentially was putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. Each pushed off the issues of slave v. free states until the election of 1860. <span />
