The main issue that led to the Great Compromise was the issue of representation. The small states in the country thought that every state should have equal representation in the Congress. They thought the states ought to be equal to one another.
C.)Radical Republicans wanted African Americans to have voting rights.
<span>Agricultural practices, abundance of food, Britian had a ready supply of money, natural recources were plentiful, a supply of markets to exchange goods.</span>
<span>The Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845–1848 </span>
During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. Polk accomplished this through the annexation of Texas in 1845, the negotiation of the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain in 1846, and the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, which ended with the signing and ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848.
Lyndon Johnson was elected as the youngest minority leader in
Senate. Soon after election the democrats had won majority leader
in the senate. This gained Johnson huge skill which he later
obtained passage of a number of key Eisenhower measures. Later in
the 1960 campaign, Kennedy was Johnson running mate, Kennedy ended
up winning and Johnson made the Vice President. After Kennedy died
Johnson was sworn in as president. In 1964 Johnson won presidency
with over 15,000,000 votes. The republican party was a ruling group
of the time in the nation and though Kennedy wanted to stop civil
rights, he never got time to. So the republicans in the nation all
swarmed to Johnson to a new civil rights bill and tax cuts.
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