Why did southerners feel the federal government was not protecting their interests?
a. the federal government did not enforce the fugitive slave law of 1793.
b. the federal government refused to allow cotton to be grown in california,
c. the federal government wanted texas to be admitted to the union as a free state.
d. the federal government wanted to amend the fugitive slave law of 1793.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

equal pay act of 1963. the equal pay act, signed in to law by president john f. kennedy on june 10, 1963, was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that addressed wage differences based on gender. they felt that this would prevent employers from undercutting future wages for men.

they believed democracy was worth the fight

after the french-indian war.