<span>One motive of the United States government was A) to convince banks that railroads were good investments. The government had decided that it wanted to have a transcontinental railroad system, and they believed it would benefit the country. However, no one would invest in the railroad system. Thus, to attempt to avoid this problem and to prevent railroads from bankruptcy, they issued land grants.</span>
Answer:
a. They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on african slave labor.
Explanation:
The Virginia colony was founded in 1607. Maryland colony was founded in 1632. A plantation-based economy developed in both of those colonies, with tobacco as the main cash crop. Initially they relied on indentured servants coming over from England to supply their labor needs. An indentured servant is someone in a position of poverty who binds himself to an employer for a fixed period of time, sometimes to pay off debts owed. With opportunities like the cheap land William Penn offered in the Pennsylvania colony (founded 1681), poorer settlers coming to America had an option other than indentured servitude. The economic conditions in England also had improved for many, so there were simply less laborers available willing to bind themselves to indentured servant contracts. Penn's establishment of religious toleration in Pennsylvania also drew many other non-traditional religious types (not just Quakers) to his colony.
With the supply of cheap labor drying up for the Virginia and Maryland colonies, they began to turn more to the slaves from Africa as a labor source for their plantation economies.
The world is full of stark dichotomies: good and evil, left and right, chocolate and vanilla - just to name a few. Political theory in the 17th century, according to many historians and philosophers, experienced a similar rift. The very nature of government and sources of power was debated and even experimented upon. Whereas today we have Democrats and Republicans arguing over these issues, in 17th-century England, the two prevailing viewpoints were best exemplified by the writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
21- A true
26-A true
27-C
28-B false
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat. His work "Democracy in America" appeared in 1835. Tocqueville wrote about the principle of equality and used the phrase "equality of conditions".
Answer: He wrote that the "principle of equality" was nowhere more evident than in America.