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Texas, which had been settled by colonies of Americans, fought a successful war for independence from Mexico in 1836. Mexico refused to recognize the independence and warned that annexation to the United States meant war.
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This depends on your view point. Apparently the Allies believed that the treaty was fair and just, but Germany did not. Personally, I think that the Treaty of Versailles was too extreme. Of course Germany had to be punished for war crimes and preventative measures had to be put in place so Germany couldn't try that again, but at the same time, if the treaty was less harsh it wouldn't have angered Germans to the point of electing the Nazi party. The German economy was already crashing and the decisions that were made in the treaty only worsened the entire establishment.
A. It doubled the size of the country.
Political opponents of President John Adams opposed the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 because it suspended many of the rights provided by Habeas Corpus. <span />
The ERA is the Equal Rights Amendment, established to guarantee equal rights for women, especially when it came to wage differences between those of the opposite sex. The amendment seemed to fly smoothly until Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservative women in opposition toward the act. She argued that the act would "disadvantage housewives", but there seemed to be more women for the act, than there were opposing it.
