The colonies provided raw goods to their home countries. These goods were refined by the homeland then sold back to the colonies. The colonies were not allowed to refine goods or sell certain expensive/important goods (such as tobacco) to other countries (although this was not enforced very heavily until the late 1700s). So in conclusion, the role the colonies played was to provide economic benefits to their mother country.
You must be 35 years old, born in the United States (or be a resident for 14 years)
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You did not include the choices however one of them was to demonstrate the power of the atomic bomb to the Japanese by dropping it on an unpopulated area and I would have done that.
Choice: Demonstrate power of bomb by dropping it on Unpopulated Area
Positive : Over a 100,000 Japanese civilians would have been spared death and property would not have been destroyed on a massive scale. Also the area would not be radioactive leading to adverse effects on generations of people born near the drop zone.
Negative: The Japanese were very defiant and stubborn in their fighting and so might have ignored the demonstration which would have meant that we wasted 50% of our nuclear bombs as the United States because only 2 existed in the world at the time and the U.S. had both.
Answer:Transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. It was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
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