John Adams
John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States.
<span>Planter families were quickly decimated during the Civil War. Union blockades prevented southern plantations from exporting cotton, tobacco, indigo and other major crop they grew. Also, most of the Civil War was fought in the South, with armies often plundering planter homes for supplies, along with freeing the slaves that made up much of their wealth. At the end of the war, the southern gentry/aristocracy that planter families made up was gone.</span>
Answer:
the Enlightenment
ancient Greece
Explanation:
Ancient Greece created the concept of democracy, where the people participated directly in the government's choices. Obviously the democracy created in Greece is different from what we see today in the USA, but we cannot fail to point out that the concept created in Greece was very important for the existence of the relationship between the government and the citizens that we see today.
Enlightenment was also very influential in this relationship. This is because the enlightenment reinforced the idea that all citizens should have political knowledge, being then guardians of their rights and freedoms, being able to demand from the government if somehow an implemented policy disrespected them.
According to the cartoon America had the power in the Panama Canal digging
Answer: It encouraged the U.S. to desegregate, because the Soviets claimed they supported equality for all people.
Explanation:
The United States kept claiming to be the beacon of democracy and equality around the world yet she was segregating against members of her own citizenry by keeping black people against from white people.
The Soviet Union always seized upon this to show the world that the U.S. was not actually equal and that the Soviet Union was more equal than the U.S. This was during the time of the Cold War and the U.S. did not like the fact that the Soviets held the moral high ground and so actively tried to end segregation.
