Answer:
Exports bring money into the state.
Explanation:
Washington state greatly benefits from international trade, more than the average state in the country.
Washington has a positive trade balance, which means that it exports more than it imports, and exports bring money into the state.
Washington is in fact the fourth largest exporter in the United States.
Wealth pure and simple. Slaves were the first "Black Gold" long before the discovery of a use for petroleum. The demand for slaves in the Americas, could make a handy profit. When they found out they could also turn a profit delivering sugar and rum to Europe, their profits doubled. By picking up trade good and Iron in Europe for delivery to Africa their profits trebeled. Two circuits and a crewman could buy a pub with his share and the Captain could buy a country home and retire for life.
There's no real certainty as to what caused it. There's multiple factors but two factors that are important are:
There was too many parties to vote for so no one party ever got enough support, and there were many splinter parties popping up because of it
Also, in an emergency, the president did NOT need the agreement of the Reichstag, but could issue decrees. In the end Hitler took advantage of this shaky situation to take power.
Notably, Weimar has many economical and political issues going on, as well all cultural, but the two I talked about, are probably most notable.
