People act in their own best interests to secure their own wills.
Remember Hobbes thought people were bad...
Economically it had a positive impact on the South, it allowed their economy not to be solely reliant on agriculture. However, as far as their society goes there wasn't a change in their belief system in their stance on African Americans. Many still considered them as second citizens until the Civil Rights Movement.
One reason that they have two parties is because peoples points of views we all don't think alike so we were given more options. It also gives us a chance to vote for the better of the two finalist.
<span>The Europeans perceived Benjamin Franklin in the
eighteenth century as brilliant man with much potential. The French admired him
for his success and for being a great diplomat in his time. He was awarded in London for his efforts in bill taxing.</span>
I believe that most of the tension was focused on the threat of nuclear war. One of the main focuses of the Cold War was to amass more nuclear weapons than the other side. This created more pressure than both sides could handle, and it created tons of scenarios where, if not treated differently, could have caused global thermo-nuclear war that could destroy Earth. Both sides wanted to prevent that from happening.