Polk was in favor of acquiring both Texas and Oregon because he was a firm believer in manifest destiny. ... This belief that it was inevitable that this land would belong to the US prompted the federal government to acquire lands like Texas and Oregon.
<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 the "Slave trade", since this trade gave Britain a large amount of free labor with which to build settlements and extract wealth from the Caribbean in the form of sugar. </span></span>
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Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery. Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their arguments.
Congressman Jack Kemp was critical of President Ronald Reagan's early economic policies. Kemp felt that there was, under Reagan, an unreasonable tax on labor. Over time, Kemp and Reagan began to see eye to eye on economic issues, and revised the tax code - so it encouraged labor over machinery - in accordance.
