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In the late 20th century the media became more important in Congress's work. Analyst Michael Schudson suggested that greater publicity undermined the power of political parties and caused "more roads to open up in Congress for individual representatives to influence decisions". Norman Ornstein suggested that media prominence led to a greater emphasis on the negative and sensational side of Congress and referred to this as the tabloidization of media coverage. Others saw pressure to squeeze a political position into a thirty-second soundbite a report characterized Congress in 2013 as being unproductive gridlocked and "setting records for futility" in October 2013 with Congress unable to compromise the government was shut down for several weeks and risked a serious default on debt payments causing 60% of the public to say they would "fire every member of Congress" including their own representative. One report suggested Congress posed the "biggest risk to the US economy" because of its brinksmanship "down-to-the-wire budget and debt crises" and "indiscriminate spending cuts" resulting in slowed economic activity and keeping up to two million people unemployed. There has been increasing public dissatisfaction with Congress, with extremely low approval ratings which dropped to 5% in October 2013, CSA During negotiations in Paris the American delegation discovered that France supported American independence but no territorial gains hoping to confine the new nation to the area east of the Appalachian Mountains the Americans opened direct secret negotiations with London cutting out the French British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne was in full charge of the British negotiations and he saw a chance to make the United States a valuable economic partner the US obtained all the land east of the Mississippi River south of Canada and north of Florida it gained fishing rights off Canadian coasts and agreed to allow British merchants and Loyalists to recover their property Prime Minister Shelburne foresaw highly profitable two-way trade between Britain and the rapidly growing United States which did come to pass the blockade was lifted and all British interference had been driven out and American merchants were free to trade with any nation anywhere in the world, 2016 90.9% 282,830 4.1% 12,723 Abolition of slavery by state action during the Civil War. 5.4 Sexual economy of American slavery, Nicholas Gilman New Hampshire 1 Yes, Painting Operation of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865; .

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