Colonial rule was oppressive in the fact that many natives of colonized nations were killed or enslaved. Benefits of it would be the nations that were colonized usually has knowledge brought to them. They also prospered most of the time.
Wealthy businessmen and rich tenant farmers.
Convict lease system, which was popular in the South essentially leased convicts to large agricultural operations. This system led to many forms of abuse of workers who had lost their rights as a result of being convicted of a felony, whether guilty or not. This was particularly true for African Americans in the late-nineteenth century. One of the most notorious of these operations was Parchman Farm in Mississippi, which literally utilized thousands of black convicts for various unpaid tasks.
They reduce the time (by making it faster) and reduce the cost of trading (by making it efficient).
Answer:
Your answer would be D
Explanation:
The Union Navy blockaded the principal seaport, Galveston, for four years, and federal troops occupied the city for three months in late 1862. Confederate troops under Gen. John B. Magruder recaptured the city on January 1, 1863 and it remained in Confederate hands until the end of the war.