The answer is C.
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Because the Industrial Revolution increased the production capacity of Western states astronomically, there was an enormous hunger for raw materials to satisfy demands. Thus, Western powers sought colonies where raw materials were abundant and where they could be appropriated at little to no cost. Additionally, colonies gave the Western powers a ready-made market for their goods, as the colonized people were left with little to no legal recourse to produce their own finished products. Technological advances in Western arms and transportation commonly made indigenous resistance to imperial incursions futile and short-lived, as Westerners had far superior weapons, ammunition, strategy and tactics.
The first of three Reconstruction Amendments after the Civil War; it was passed in 1865 in order to permanently and irreversibly ban and forbid slavery in the territory of the United States except when used to punish a criminal offense irrespective of the offender’s race.
It applies to the actions of private citizens and is currently used to forbid and prevent sex-trafficking and/or any kind of slavery or indentured servitude.
An equivalent fraction to 5/40 would be 1/8
