The answer would be tobacco, In the Chesapeake colonies of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, slavery was the predominant way of organizing labor. By 1790, nearly forty percent of the population in the British colonies were enslaved.
Robert Smalls was the black slave that captained a union ship
This is a very complicated topic, but many people rightly credit the New Deal for bringing the economy back to life. The other major factor, however, was World War II.
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<u>Firing squad was the type of capital punishment in Utah upheld by the Supreme Court.
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In case <u>Wallace Wilkerson, v. People of the United States in the Territory of Utah, </u>an American stockman called <em><u>Wallace Wilkerson,</u></em> was charged with premeditated murder for killing <em><u>William Baxter</u></em>, to which <em><u>Wilkerson</u></em> claimed innocence. On December 14, 1877, <em><u>Wilkerson</u></em> was sentenced to die. He was given a choice of methods between hanging, decapitation, and firing squad; <em><u>Wilkerson</u></em> elected to be executed by firing squad. However, a year later, he appealed to the <em><u>Supreme Court </u></em>of Utah territory on the grounds that <em><u>"execution by firing squad presented unnecessary cruelty and unusual punishment"</u></em>. His lawyers argued that because of the nature of firing squads, <em><u>"his 8th amendment right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment had been violated"</u></em>. The appeal was revoked by the <em>Supreme Court</em>, upholding the initial decision of the First Court of the Territory of Utah.
