They journey from Europe to North America and from North America to South Africa and from South Africa back to Europe
Q: what does gross domestic product measure?
A: GDP is a monetary measure of the market values of all the final goods and services produced in a period of time, often annually or quarterly. They’re commonly used to determine the economic performance of a whole country or region, and to make international comparisons.
The Government regulate natural monopolies by <u>A.) ensuring and overseeing one supplier</u>, because a natural monopoly occurs when in an industry the fixed costs are too higher, so is very difficult that more than one business start activities in that industry, for that reason <u>only can exist one competitor or one supplier</u>, as an example of that are the public utilities as water or electricity.
Moreover, due to in the natural monopolies don't exist competitors in the same industry, the suppliers in those monopolies could abuse of their advantage and their market position by establishing higher costs to customers, <u>so with the purpose to prevent that possible unjust actions, the Government regulate the natural monopolies by ensuring and supervising constantly to the only supplier of an specific industry.</u>
Created a dividing line at latitude 36° 30'
<em>The Missouri Compromise was a law that was passed to admit Main as a free State of the United States at the same time Missouri was considered a slave state. It was needed so a balance was maintained between pro-slavery states and free states. As a part of it, a parallel was drawn on 36 30’ which prohibited slavery north of the parallel, excluding Missouri.</em>
No territory gained from Mexico should become a slave state.
<em>The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal of an law that aimed to prohibit slavery in all territory that was acquired from Mexico following the Mexican-American War. Although it wasn’t successful the debate it sparkled lasted for some years.</em>
Divided the Nebraska territory into two parts
<em>The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an Act that divided the Nebraska Territory into two parts: Nebraska and Kansas. But the problem was that the Act violated the Missouri Compromise since both territories should not be allowed to have slaves because of its location north of 36, 30’N. With that, they let the population decide if the states should be slave free or not, which brought up a series of conflicts.</em>
4. The Crittenden Compromise
Proposed six amendments to the Constitution
<em>The Crittenden Compromise was a proposal that aimed to express the right to have slaves on the US Constitution, this way it would be unconstitutional to ban slavery in the future. It consisted of six constitutional amendments. It was introduced in 1860 and it had popularity between Southern members of Senate but president Abraham Lincoln opposed the compromise and both of the House of Representatives and the Senate rejected it.</em>
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