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Marketplace competition drove producers to innovate and improve products.
John Calvin believed that politics and religion should not be separated. Whereas Martin Luther believed that politics and religion should be absolutely separate.
Maryland bordered Virginia's northeast.
No one, not even he could have averted the war without a historical wrong that could no longer be justified in a democracy - the continuation of legal human bondage in the United States. But to answer the question. Yes, I think it was very possible that no guns had to fire, and it would have been to me a revolting development.