Answer:
In January 1801, Benedict Arnold's health began to decline. He had suffered from gout since 1775, and the condition attacked his unwounded leg to the point where he was unable to go to sea.
Explanation:
Answer: B. Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, and eastern Asia
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Explanation:
Nations like England believed that by paying tribute they not only bought protection for themselves but also redirected the pirates to wreak havoc on the merchant ships of competing nations. The American colonies traded extensively in the Mediterranean before the Revolutionary War.
Answer:
A by causing real median household incomes to decline
C by limiting consumer choice
Explanation:
Negative effects of trade barriers (protectionism) policies include the following:
- weakening competition in the domestic market, and, consequently, incentives to improve production decsrease;
- the welfare of the population is decreasing due the rise in price of imported goods and the relative high cost of domestic goods, the deterioration of the quality of domestic goods, and the restriction of the freedom of choice of consumers;
- the country will suffer large losses due to the non-use of the absolute and relative advantages of the international division of labor and exchange.
This is confirmed, in particular, by the fact that after the Second World War, the gradual removal of trade barriers, such as tariffs and quotas, stimulated growth and increased the level of welfare wherever this happened, partly due to the expansion of the choice of goods for the population at lower prices. More importantly, trade also had a powerful beneficial effect on productivity, that is, on the efficient use of world resources for the production of economic goods.
D. Connecticut compromise
