The correct answer to this open question is the following.
President Eisenhower could have had a better role in the Red Scare issue. Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt involved people that worked in the federal government and the US military. President Eisenhower, as the leader of the nation and head of the executive branch, had the power and faculty to ask McCarthy for valid arguments and to prove his accusations. Because in the end, McCarthy's accusations could not be proven but what he did was to ruin many people's reputation.
It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
The correct answer here is women.
This means that there are a lot of women who are supporters of the Democratic party and it is not hard to see why. Nowadays, the Democratic party is seen as a liberal choice and the liberal party while the Republican party is seen as a more conservative and traditional party.
Conditions before the Industrial Revolution were terrible. Child mortality was high and the children who survived, barely had enough to eat. You see, because of The Little Ice Age, agriculture was terrible. And before the revolution, most of Europe was agriculture based. The lack of food made people stunted and killed many. The food that could be harvested, were taxed and there was almost no profit.