A monopoly can raise prices and retain customers because the monopoly has no competitors. If a customer has no other place to go to obtain the goods or services, they either pay the increased price or do without. Thus the key to market power is to preclude competition through high barriers of entry.
The reforms that was done the Chinese government after the death of Mao was that, they permitted property and other reforms of the economy, as well as some features of free markets. What they did not allow was extension of political freedoms or democratic rights.
John Brown's Raid was a revolt that led the Americans:
• Some rallied behind him and some against him.
• Few joined the revolt
• Democrats blamed the Republicans
• Republicans blamed John Brown
• Raid on Harper's Ferry
• Southerners assembled to prepare for war
• Cotton prices went down.
Answer:
1. Spread of diseases
2. food going bad
3. keeping people from telling others about the invention of silk
Explanation:
What makes a baseball bounce would be the correct answer. All the other options would be opinions, therefore they are not true testable experiments. Hope this helps!
