The correct answer is Supported believed Alaska would provide valuable natural resources, while detractors felt it was too cold and too far away.
The annexation of Alaska was a controversial topic in Congress during the mid 1800's. The decision to add it to the United States as a territory was decided by one vote in Congress. The individuals who voted against the annexation felt it was a waste of time and money. They gave it nicknames like "Seward's Folly" (named after Secretary of State William Seward) and "Johnson's Polar Bear Garden" (After president Andrew Johnson who approved of the annexation).
State laws can make it difficult for some people to vote because some require people to present states IDs. Some make it easy and allowing a person to vote early, or on election-day. The votings turnout varies greatly between different states because of the rules that are required when voting
The Arabs expansionist movement started with the Arabs defeating the Byzantines at the <em>Battle of Yarmouk</em> - in August 636 along what is today the borders of Syria and Jordan and Syria and Palestine. The win of the Arabs ended the Byzantine rule in Syria and this battle is known as the most decisive battle of military history.
Later in 650 the Arabs conquest<em> Persia and marked the end of the Sasanian empire of Persia and the decline of the Zoroastrian religion.</em> They had liberal policies and made population free to convert to Islam or not. This made the place easier to conquest and less prone to rise up against the new government.
The empire continues to grow throughout Europe, leading to the <em>conquest of parts of the Roman Empire</em> but the <em>losses in Mesopotamia and Syria started the decline of the Arab expansion with minor successes of the Byzantines in 1055.</em>
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These diseases wiped out many of the Indigenous people who lived in the Americas. They had never been exposed to these and were very weak against them. However, Africans had already been exposed to Europeans years prior. They have built up resistance to these diseases. So, Europeans began to ship out Africans to the Americas because they could work and not fall susceptible to European diseases like the Indigenous did.
In general, no, Montesquieu did not think a good way to make laws is for all the people to directly vote on them, since he thought a more efficient way was to have a Republic, in which people elect representatives. <span />
