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This year’s election will be held on Nov. 5. 

Kamala Harris appears on “Saturday Night Live” in the opening skit, which may have violated the FCC’s rules about equal time. 

Donald Trump made headlines for saying he wouldn’t mind if journalists were shot.

Insured: Phil E Phanatic• 27 years old, married, two children• $50,000 annual salary and will retire at 67• $20,000 used for taxes, insurance, and personal needs/wants• Assumed 5% discount rate• PV of 40 annual payments of $1: $17.16• Phil’s life value: $30,000 x 17.16 = $514,800 What amount of insurance would you recommend to Phil?

Fearful of disunion and outraged by the interracial nature of abolitionism, northern mobs smashed abolitionist printing presses and even killed a prominent antislavery newspaper editor named Elijah Lovejoy.

The Jacksonian Era witnessed the rise of a new type of politician: the professional politician.

By the 1850s, slavery and cotton had become so intertwined that the very idea of change—be it crop diversity, antislavery ideologies, economic diversification, or the increasingly staggering cost of purchasing and maintaining slaves—became anathema to the southern economic and cultural identity.

Between 1834 and 1836, a combination of high cotton prices, freely available foreign and domestic credit, and an infusion of specie (“hard” currency in the form of gold and silver) from Europe spurred a sustained boom in the American economy.

The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, significantly increased the demand for slave labor in the South.

Manifest Destiny denied the right of Americans to move westward.