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The best word or phrase for the sentences are the following: a. During its earliest years, professional baseball was not segregated (Option A); b. The segregation of professional baseball was enforced by informal agreement (Option B); c. After the segregation of the major leagues, African American players (Option C).
Baseball was a segregated sport for 60 years. Before segregation was imposed due to a tacit understanding or a "gentlemen's agreement" in the sport, there were some black players who played on white teams. A gentlemen's agreement is a term given to an informal, unspoken agreement that is reached between two or more parties. It is said to be based on the honor of the parties involved.
Moses Fleetwood Walker is one example of a black player who played for a short time in 1884. His brother Weldy Walker also played for a short time on the same team called the Toledo Blue Stockings. Another player that is said to have played for a white team before the idea to segregate the sport emerged was John W. "Bud" Fowler who played in 1872. Fowler played for various teams throughout his life in New York and a number of states in the Midwest. In 1987, the Society for American Baseball Research decided to memorialize his gravesite for his role as the first professional baseball player of African-American descent.
Beginning in 1887 the sport became segregated in practice until famous player Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Jackie Robinson played an important role in the civil rights movement. He also held many prominent positions in his life off the field. He was the first black sportscaster on television and the first black vice president of a major corporation. He also helped to found a bank in Harlem called the Freedom National Bank that served African-American clients. Posthumously, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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a or c
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Tariffs are used to restrict imports by increasing the price of goods and services purchased from another country, making them less attractive to domestic consumers. A specific tariff is levied as a fixed fee.
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as a decimal it's 0.23 and as a percentage it's 0.23%
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Other colonial powers like Spain, France, and the Netherlands got involved in order to adjust the balance of power with the British Empire.
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At the time of the American Revolution, Britain had become the most powerful imperial nation in the world. In 1763, following the Seven Years War (which was, itself, a World War), the Treaty of Paris granted Britain much of the former French land in the Americas. As such, tension between France and Britain never really calmed.
Even at the start of the Revolutionary War, French, Spanish, and Dutch merchants had begun smuggling gunpowder into the United States through the Caribbean. Some estimates suggest that up to 90% of the gunpowder used by the Patriots came from these nations.
By 1778, France was concerned about the possibility of the British regaining their colonies and turning their full attention to fighting the French overseas. Following the Battle of Saratoga, in which the Patriots showed that their army was capable, France declared their alliance with the U.S. and send (mostly naval) military aid.
France's declaration sparked international declarations from elsewhere. Spain declared in 1779 that the time was right to recognize the U.S. and ally with them, and the Dutch joined in 1780. Both had been sending aid since 1776, and did not significantly change their involvement after announcing.
In India, meanwhile, the Mysore empire took the opportunity to push back against British imperialism, hoping to use French trading outposts as allied European power. The French, however, did not send the support promised.
The invention of the cotton gin allowed for the production of cotton to skyrocket in the south, which is why it turned to more slave owning and plantation society. The greatest influence on agriculture in the south was the invention of the cotton gin.