Factor 1: Who decides to run for office and what advantages candidates have over one another.
Factor 2: Incumbency. Usually the incumbent (the person already serving in the office) has a large advantage over challengers, unless negative events have the voters wanting to get rid of incumbents.
Factor 3: The way congressional districts are drawn. There have been court cases recently about "gerrymandering" -- attempts by a party in power to draw district boundaries in ways that will serve to perpetuate that party's power.
Martin Luther King Jr was a leader of a civil rights movements that wanted equality and freedom be granted to all races equally.
He is best known for holding PEACEFUL protests
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Imperialists around the world used ideas of racial, national, and cultural superiority to justify imperialism. One of these ideas was Social Darwinism which was the belief that life consists of competitive struggles in which only the fittest survive. Social Darwinists felt that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over inferior peoples and cultures. In an 1899 interview president McKinley explained "We could not give (the Philippines) back to Spain- that would be cowardly and dishonorable." instead he argued that the United States had no choice but to "take them all, and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize...them.".
<h2>Stone Age</h2>
The Oldowan toolkit, which includes hammerstones, stones with chipped flakes, and stone flakes with sharp edges used for cutting, is one of the first tools used by humans. These tools can be <u>traced back at least 2.6 million years to the Stone Age.</u>
