AS.190.101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Supremacy Clause
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Wealthy merchants just wanted the colonies to have more control over their own affairs. A better example: mlk and the protest march at selma. After selma, thousands of federal agents were sent to the south to deal with the police brutality: he"s literally still talking about selma (basically a peaceful protest down in. Selma which turned brutal and was captured on national television. Immediately skipped through the revolutionary war and now we have 13. Independent states: form a united states literally, various states with a weak central government under the articles of confederation. No president ( president was the presiding officer of congress the only institution under the articles of confederation. American commerce was badly disadvantaged: no navy to protect u. s. ships from pirates, during the revolutionary war, french protected the ships. Radical forces came together in several of the states ex: coalitions of farmers: ex: rhode island coalition of farmers and poor townsfolk.
