Uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
Hi!
I think that the question had options, and that those were the options:
1)Nobody controls the means of production.
2)Workers control the means of production.
3)Business owners control the means of production.
4)The government controls the means of production.
The correct answer is that Business owners control the means of production- they can decide which way of producing is the most profitable based on their expertise and demand!
Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition asking Parliament not to break from the colonies until a compromise could be worked out. The correct option among all the options given in the question is the first option. The main reason behind such a petition was that the King did not consider any government bodies in the colonies to be legitimate. There was lack of sincerity among the people as well.
It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
