For what reasons did Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations oppose slavery?
What will be an ideal response?
Slavery prevented innovation and made landowners lazy.
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Who was a Greek historian who lived in the fifth century B.C.E.?
A. Thucydides B. Xenophanes C. Protagoras D. Hippocrates
At the wartime Tehran Conference, the Soviet Union agreed to
a. declare war on Japan within three months. b. the division of postwar Germany into three separate occupied zones. c. allow free elections in Eastern European nations that its armies occupied at the end of the war. d. launch attacks on Germany from the east simultaneously with the Allied invasion in France. e. remove its troops from Finland after the surrender of Germany..
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the Battle of Antietam?
A) It was the single bloodiest day of battle in American history. B) It ended with victory for the Confederacy, which boosted morale and kept its soldiers determined to win the war. C) It resulted in Union troops gaining the upper hand in the pivotal regions of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. D) It gave Lincoln the necessary victory that allowed him to issue his Emancipation Proclamation from a position of strength rather than desperation. E) It pushed Lee's army back into the Confederacy.
Artisans who were most drastically affected by being put out of work in industrialization were
a. shoemakers. b. weavers. c. glassblowers. d. clock makers. e. tailors.