Anti-slavery<span> Whigs had begun </span>meeting<span> in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such </span>meeting<span>, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the </span>founding meeting<span> of the Republican Party.</span>
“Society was liberalized, and Gorbachev sought détente with the USA so as to be able to transfer funding from defense to civil society. He declared that he would not support Communist regimes in other countries if their peoples were opposed to them. He thus started a chain reaction which led to the fall of communism in Europe.”
The Treaty of Ghent "<span>returned all national boundaries to their pre-war status," since the Treaty was seen as a "break even" treaty between the United States and Great Britain following the War of 1812. </span>
