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In 1783 in Britain, and most of the world, slavery was an accepted and legal practice.
Sick slave being thrown overboardIn that year, a case was heard before the British courts. The insurer of the slave ship Zong, which carried African slaves from Africa to the Americas, refused to pay a claim for “lost cargo”. That lost cargo was more than 100 sick slaves that had been thrown overboard by the ship’s captain, so that their value could be claimed against the insurers. If the slaves had died of natural causes (their sickness), no claim could be brought against the insurers. The insurers won their case. Efforts to bring murder charges against the ship owners failed. The slaves were not human beings they were goods.
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Sumerian writing is called cuneiform.
<u>Answer:</u>
In the presidential election of 1800, each elector in the electoral college could cast two votes.
Option: (B)
<u>Explanation:</u>
- First time in the 1800 presidential elections, the Federalist Party lost to the Democratic Republican Party with a margin of eight electoral votes.
- After about 24 years of independence, the power shifted from one party to another. But this shift of power was controversial.
- Taking lesson from the 1800 presidential elections, the 12th amendment was made to the United States Constitution.
The name of this message was the "Zimmermann telegram." This is because this message was sent by a German official named Arthur Zimmermann to promise Mexico that if they Mexico joined Germany in the war, Germany would regain its lost territory that the United States had previously obtained.
Not many people worried about their child's education because children would already work jobs. Boys would usually help their fathers with work and girls would help their mothers with house work and (when they reach the age) get married. But when children were not allowed to work jobs at a young age they would start attending school. Also their were not many schools and they wouldn't get funded much so they were not in the best condition.
