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Slavery Nashville Convention 5 Legacy 8 Reconstruction The Americans protested that Britain's failure to return all slaves violated the Treaty of Ghent After arbitration by the Tsar of Russia the British paid $1,204,960 in damages (about $26.7 million in today's money) to Washington which reimbursed the slaveowners; 11.4 Status of American women Spouses and children The Constitution concentrates removal powers in the Congress by empowering and obligating the House of Representatives to impeach both executive and judicial officials for "Treason Bribery or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" Impeachment is a formal accusation of unlawful activity by a civil officer or government official the Senate is constitutionally empowered and obligated to try all impeachments a simple majority in the House is required to impeach an official; however a two-thirds majority in the Senate is required for conviction a convicted official is automatically removed from office; in addition the Senate may stipulate that the defendant be banned from holding office in the future Impeachment proceedings may not inflict more than this; however a convicted party may face criminal penalties in a normal court of law in the history of the United States the House of Representatives has impeached sixteen officials of whom seven were convicted Another resigned before the Senate could complete the trial Only two presidents have ever been impeached: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999 Both trials ended in acquittal; in Johnson's case the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction in 1974 Richard Nixon resigned from office after impeachment proceedings in the House Judiciary Committee indicated he would eventually be removed from office! Settlement of borders In July 1845 Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Texas and by October 3,500 Americans were on the Nueces River ready to take by force the disputed land Polk wanted to protect the border and also coveted for the U.S the continent clear to the Pacific Ocean At the same time Polk wrote to the American consul in the Mexican territory of Alta California disclaiming American ambitions in California but offering to support independence from Mexico or voluntary accession to the United States and warning that the United States would oppose a British or French takeover! ! ; Thomas Lynch South Carolina 1 Yes In the United States increasingly divided by sectional rivalry the war was a partisan issue and an essential element in the origins of the American Civil War Most Whigs in the North and South opposed it; most Democrats supported it. Southern Democrats animated by a popular belief in Manifest Destiny supported it in hope of adding slave-owning territory to the South and avoiding being outnumbered by the faster-growing North John L O'Sullivan editor of the Democratic Review coined this phrase in its context stating that it must be "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.".

The 1832 boundaries of Comancheria the Comanche homeland International Court of Justice: the Hague. . Thomas Fitzsimons Pennsylvania 1 Yes Governing bodies, William Samuel Johnson Connecticut 1 Yes 3.2 Youth and longevity, A 2016 study published in the Journal of Politics finds that "Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican oppose affirmative action and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks." the study contends that "contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence more than 150 years ago " the authors argue that their findings are consistent with the theory that "following the Civil War Southern whites faced political and economic incentives to reinforce existing racist norms and institutions to maintain control over the newly freed African American population This amplified local differences in racially conservative political attitudes which in turn have been passed down locally across generations.".