Through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement. The Indian threat to expansion into the Midwest was permanently ended. 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A small number of active Northerners were abolitionists who declared that ownership of slaves was a sin (in terms of Protestant theology) and demanded its immediate abolition. This provision increased the political power of southern representatives in Congress, especially as slavery was extended into the Deep South through removal of Native Americans and transportation of slaves by an extensive domestic trade. This migration may have begun as early as 30,000 years ago[4] and continued through to about 10,000 years ago, when the land bridge became submerged by the rising sea level caused by the melting glaciers. Their agenda-much influenced by Keynesian economic theory-envisioned massive public expenditure that would speed economic growth, thus providing the public resources to fund larger welfare, housing, health, and educational programs.[191]. [34] The confederation had no president. [23], The Dutch West India Company sent explorer Henry Hudson to search for a Northwest Passage to Asia in 1609. Sherman demonstrated that the South lacked the long-term ability to resist a northern invasion. This included Na-Dene-speaking peoples, who reached the Pacific Northwest by 5,000 BCE. In 2014, Republicans took control of both houses of Congress, further adding to the gridlock. [13] Most of them made clothes. Roosevelt seriously weakened his second term by a failed effort to pack the Supreme Court, which had been a center of conservative resistance to his programs. [174] The Complex allowed for a growing middle class, but also kept the Cold War going. [141], In 1921, Warren G. Harding became President. [60] One of the big transportation projects of this time was the Erie Canal, a canal in the state of New York. [216], On September 24, 2019, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry into Trump. In 1775, a war between the thirteen colonies and Britain began when the colonists were upset over paying taxation to their government in the UK, but were not being given any chance to vote in the UK/British elections, to contribute to how that money was spent. In the United States, progressivism is the belief that the government should have a larger role in the economy to provide good living standards for people, especially workers. Paleo-Indians in central Mexico were the first in the Americas to farm, starting to plant corn, beans, and squash around 8,000 BCE. Although the Constitution specified a Supreme Court, its functions were vague until Marshall, the Chief Justice (1801–35), defined them, especially the power to overturn acts of Congress or states that violated the Constitution, first enunciated in 1803 in Marbury v. 1872–1888 – v. 5. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. and Soviet Union came very close to attacking each other with nuclear weapons. The growth of the colonies was not good for Native Americans. [207] Reagan continued to downsize government taxation and regulation.