To be <span>become adjusted to new conditions.</span>
One factor is that most European nations were just too poor after the war to carry the huge expenses of maintaining their colonies. Another is that many colonies were acquired strictly for strategic reasons, like coaling or controlling certain maritime trading routes, and they were simply no longer needed.
I would say that yes, generally, state governments are set up the same as the federal government.
For example, they have a separation of powers into executive, legislative and judicial, and most states have a bi-cameral legislitive branch, similarly to the federal government.
True!
It deals with opportunity costs. Opportunity costs are not real costs, but rather the things that you had to give up in order to obtain something else. What you didn't obtain is considered to be an opportunity cost. A production possibility curve deals with this.
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