Slavery was downright essential to mercantilism in eighteenth-century Great Britain. This was because mercantilism depended on the use of colonies to produce raw materials, particularly cash crops <span>, for the mother country. These cash crops, with sugar being by far the most important, represented a major source of revenue for Great Britain. </span>
The primary legacy of the French philosopher Montesquieu is "<span>b. three branches of federal government in the United States" since he was one of the major thinkers of the Enlightenment who had a great deal of influence on the Founding Fathers. </span>
Two women founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, they were Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony. The primary goal of the NWSA was to gain women's right to vote, along with anybody of any race. They initially wanted the fifteenth amendment to grant women's right to vote, but when it got passed it only allowed men of any race to vote, not women.
In 1907, Britain, France and Russia formed a military alliance for WWI, known as the Triple Entente.
President Truman fired General MacArthur for insubordination. Although Truman was committed to waging a limited war in Korea, preferring to negotiate with China and North Korea rather than expand hostilities, MacArthur openly disagreed with the president and threatened to attack China if it did not agree to terms of peace.
