The Progressive Era saw reforms in U.S. citizens ' democratic representation. Many states created laws that allowed for direct voting on legislation, open primary elections, and greater citizen influence on the political process.
<span>A major reason why the United States government spent money to improve the National Highway System was that the infrastructure was crumbling and became dangerous for drivers.
Indian brokered alliances more than Quaker pacifism anchored the long peace in the decades that followed Pennsylvania founding in 1681.
The Soviet theory of peaceful coexistence asserted that the US and the USSR could coexist rather than fighting one another and Khrushchev tried to demonstrated this by attending Geneva Conventions.
The disruption of Pennsylvania Indian relations caused a deep political rift to open between Philadelphia's Quaker community and colonists living along the Susquehanna Valley frontier.
