The Marshall Plan<span> (Or </span>European Recovery Program(ERP)<span>) was an American initiative to aid </span>Western Europe<span>, in which the </span>United States<span> gave over $13 billion</span><span> in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of </span>World War II<span>.
The plan was in operation for four years beginning on April 1948.
The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove </span>trade barriers<span>, modernize </span>industry<span>, make Europe prosperous once more, and prevent the spread of </span>communism.<span>The Marshall Plan encouraged an increase in </span>productivity<span>, </span>labour union<span> membership, as well as the adoption of modern business procedure.</span>
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World war 2 era marked the end of colonialism. If you look at what happened after ww2 you'll see that both in Africa and in Asia, new countries were born from French and British colonies.
This is a direct consequence of the USA being the western superpower, she obliged her former allies to free their colonies. On one hand that has to do with their history, that is to say, a republic born after fighting a king. But it also has an economic explanation; independent countries will probably buy more American goods than colonies.
That worked fine in some countries (Egipt, Irán, India) but did not work at all in others: Vietnam, Iraq, Siria, Uganda, etc.
Finally, all this happened because European colonialist countries did not have any power to achieve any different deal with the USA.
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The Regulators were backcountry settlers who banded together in 1767 in response to a wave of crime that swept their region in the aftermath of a disruptive war with the Cherokee Indians (1759–1761). Bandit gangs, including women as well as escaped slaves, roamed the country with little fear of capture.
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Manchester's population between 1801 and 1851 increased from 89,000 people to 400,000 people, which is a bit more than 4 and half times increase in population in this short time-frame.
The population of this once small town of only 10,000 people, rapidly increased after the industrialization, and people moving in large masses form the rural to the urban ares.
With this quick and big increase in population, Manchester became the third biggest city in Britain, with only London and Glasgow being bigger in size and population.
The answer is D. Along with Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan were some of the richest, most powerful men in America during the Gilded Age.
