Why was the Gordon Gecko’s quote Greed is Good speech a reflection of the 1980s?

According to this contract, when will the sharecropper receive his payment?

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.

Briefly explain one example of an antitrust effort from 1865 to 1900