<span>It said that the only people who became successful were people who were the fittest to do so. They deserved what they got for their hard work. It legitimized businessmen's success and allowed it to coincide with the American ideals of freedom and individualism.</span>
Im stuck between a and d its like they both seem right, sorry.
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the foreign merchants brang new idea's and beliefs,along with trade goods.
Lighting kerosene lamps. Petroleum in the form of tar from oil seeps in the ground were used to seal boats and the roofs of houses.