Labor shortage occurred in Texas because as most of the young men were drafted in the army.
Explanation:
During the the war the farmers were asked to produce more and more goods with limited workers as most of the labor were enlisted in the army. As a result there was shortage of food took place specially fruits and vegetables.
There was shortage of labor due to the Great Depression, unemployment took place. Although during the war many jobs were created but less young men were available for civilian jobs. There was short in grocery clerks as a result the retailers had to stop delivery. Many retired person, students as well as housewife started entering in the labor market as there was shortage of labor.
Opportunity cost is the loss of other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. It represents the benefits an individual, investor or business misses out on when choosing one alternative over another. An example is when I choose my career path. The opportunity cost represents all the other career paths that I did not choose.
Answer:
a terrible and bloody Civil War freed enslaved Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868) granted African Americans the rights of citizenship. However, this did not always translate into the ability to vote. Black voters were systematically turned away from state polling places. To combat this problem, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. It says:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Yet states still found ways to circumvent the Constitution and prevent blacks from voting. Poll taxes, literacy tests, fraud and intimidation all turned African Americans away from the polls. Until the Supreme Court struck it down in 1915, many states used the "grandfather clause " to keep descendents of slaves out of elections. The clause said you could not vote unless your grandfather had voted -- an impossibility for most people whose ancestors were slaves.
This unfair treatment was debated on the street, in the Congress and in the press. A full fifty years after the Fifteenth Amendment passed, black Americans still found it difficult to vote, especially in the South." What a Colored Man Should Do to Vote", lists many of the barriers African American voters faced.
Explanation:
The British army surrendered at Saratoga, in the Battle of Saratoga, which effectively ended the American Independence, and the US was seen as a nation of its own.
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