It highlighted the discontent and instability in the post-Revolutionary period, leading to events like Shays' Rebellion. What were the long-term effects of the petition on state policies? The petition contributed to the pressure for reforms, leading to changes in state policies and influencing the...
As increasing numbers of migrants from North America and other parts of the world continued to move westward, frontier cultures that had emerged in the colonial period continued to grow, fueling social, political, and ethnic tensions.The expansion of slavery in the deep South and adjacent western...