Answer:The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” This amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing unduly harsh penalties on criminal defendants, either as the price for obtaining ...
The industrial Revolution created a demand among American and European business men, and consequently politicians, for new markets.
Traditional subsistence agriculture has turned into industrial mono culture farming. Among the negative effects are deforestation, soil degradation due to the use of toxic pesticides and the lack of variety in crops, decreased food security due to the use of agricultural lands for commercial crops with no alimentary value such as rubber and abusive private appropriation of land by industrial agricultural corporations. Among the positive effects in Thailand and China, because of their logistical, financial and educational support of poor farmers, the latter have been able to take advantage of the rubber boom and prosper, leaving poverty behind.
There were a number of reasons Federalists opposed the Louisiana Purchase. One can assume some opposed it just because it was Jefferson who made the purchase, out of a kind of reflex. Others had heard wild stories about the land purchased, and thought the purchase a bad bargain. Some thought that the inclusion of Louisiana as the treaty was written would undercut the power of the states by not having each state vote, thus undercutting Federalist power. (Some Federalists in the eastern states specifically feared a shift in power to the west.)
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