The correct answer to this question is:
“Individuals were permitted to own businesses and
earn profits.”
<span>Mikhail
Gorbachev was the General
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. Prior to assuming
his office, a lot of attention went to creating up the nation’s military at the
cost of development within the </span>Soviet Union, which eventually destabilized the economy.<span>
Gorbachev
began reforming the Soviet Union by implementing policies to bring about
individual freedom, bureaucratic transparency, and to motivate economic change<span>.</span></span>
Their lives were almost bad terms like new labor was brought to them to replace the shattered world of slavery. After the civil war, many former slaves, planters and non-slaveholding whites were transformed. Later new systems of labor emerged to take the place of slavery as well, sharecropping..
<span>Prior to the Mexican American war president Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico to negotiate an agreement between that the Rio Grande River would be the southern border of Texas. ... The United States annexed the territory of California in 1848 following its victory in the Mexican-American War.</span>