The Enlightenment thinkers changed peoples' beliefs of how government should work by talking of separation of powers and checks and balances.
In the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the United States "<span>C. paid $15 million for lands the Mexican Cession," although this cost was also to repay for suits against land encroachments. </span>
The North and the South disagreed heavily on the topic of slavery. The North wanted it destroyed, but the South wanted it to spread. As time passed the tension built. One of the tipping points was when John Brown tried to start a revolution by stealing guns for the slaves from a weapons depot in the South. He was caught before anyone was hurt and sentenced to hang. The North call him a martyr, which enraged the South, since he had been planning to hurt and kill them.
