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<span>2 Serfs had to pay landowners a large tax and a fee for loans.
3 The zemstvos in charge of collecting taxes exploited the lower classes.
Zemstvos were like local governments that gained power due to the rise of capitalism which allowed accumulation of wealth. The serfs were no longer serfs but they had to pay huge taxes which led to civil unrest since poverty rose and often people starved to death because of inability to pay debt and taxes.</span>
The main reason why workers would have been reluctant to hold a strike in the early years of the factory system is because there were few jobs available, and those with jobs did not want to risk losing them over a strike.
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Option: d. The United States protected its investments in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and other Latin American countries by sending in military forces.
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The United States had made investments in some countries within its proximity in order to bring prosperity to the region and to serve its purpose of territorial dominance.
In its first, the purpose of passing the Platt Amendment was to grant Cuba freedom but keep the rights of intervention with the United States whenever need be. In a few other instances, the United States sent in military forces to protect its investments in other countries.
There were a lot of raids in Africa which led Africans to sell those captured to the Europeans for slavery.
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