<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be that there was a sharp decline in manufacturing, since more jobs in these sector were being "exported" overseas.</span></span>
Land needed to be cleared for farming,and since deforestation is already a problem.
By extending their arguments to address entire nations, some social Darwinists justified imperialism on the basis that the imperial powers were naturally superior and their control over other nations was in the best interest of human evolution.
the correct answer is...
<em>perfectly free to do as they wish.</em>