During this time, it was China that mostly remained a land-based empire. This is due partly to the fact that China occupied a large area of land, and didn't need more resources.
Answer:
The correct answer is A. A major characteristic shared by countries in the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War was an unwillingness to involve themselves in any U.S.-Soviet conflicts.
Explanation:
The Non-Aligned Movement was a group of countries created in 1961, in the framework of the Cold War, by countries that did not identify themselves even with the Western Bloc and its democratic and capitalist values; nor with the Eastern Bloc and its communist and autocratic values. Thus, it was a group of neutral countries in the conflict of the Cold War, which tried not to get directly involved in said international conflict, but to attend in a particular way to their own interests.
Generally, these were countries of a socialist nature, but not aligned with the policies of the Soviet Union, such as Yugoslavia; or from countries with social democratic tendencies such as India.
The Missouri Compromise—also referred to as the Compromise of 1820—was an agreement between the pro- and anti-slavery factions regulating slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory, excluding Missouri.
Many former slaves still were unedumercated and needed to find jobs this lead to a legal form of work known as share cropping (tending to crops for a portion of the crop or a low wage pay)