What effects was Ford hoping to achieve by pardoning Nixon? Select three options.

He wanted to reduce tension in the nation.
He wanted to keep other officials from resigning.
He wanted to avoid a drawn-out trial of a former president.
He wanted people to develop more respect for his own presidency.
He thought the former president had been punished enough through public shame.

answer: alexander hamilton

explanation: alexander hamilton was george washington's right hand man. he took an early role in the militia as the american revolutionary war began. in 1777, he became a senior aide to general washington in running the new continental army.

the intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. in great britain, these laws were referred to as the coercive acts.

spanish executed counts egmont and horne in brussels.