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01 / evaluation
“Whereas in British Canada, the British government is subsidizing the local government. They’re paying the full freight of it, which means that local taxes were much lower there.”
02 / evaluation
“Whereas if you’re one of these islands or you’re one of these small colonies to the north, you’re very tenuous and you’re very dependent on the British Royal Navy. That means that there’s a higher threshold in order to build up the confidence to rebel.”
03 / evaluation
“By that standard, the Jacksonians aren’t particularly democratic because they’re not keen to expand the vote to African Americans, to say the least, and they were not keen to open up political rights to women.”
04 / evaluation
“” There’s a recurrent sense of crisis within the American republic through much of that period of time, because there’s just fear that some region within the country would be growing too powerful, or there’s a recurrent fear that the country is getting too large.”
05 / evaluation
“There’s also developing some pushback against that because it is contributing to inflation in the urban centers.”
06 / evaluation
“There was a lot of talk. And there’s a lot of triumphalism, because the Union forces in April of 1865 have been so triumphant, and the United States has one of the largest and best militaries in the world, which was unprecedented in American history.”
07 / evaluation
“Assets are greatly depreciated during the war because these colonies and the new United States [were] highly dependent on transatlantic trade.”