Adam Smith is considered to be the key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, economist, philosopher and author, the pioneer of political econony, laid the foundations of the free market economic theory, also known as the "Father of Economy". One of his most famous works is "Wealth of Nations". The key ideas of this work are the economic free market program, where everyone has the opportunity based on the division of labor, the achievement of wealth and prosperity growth. Also, the key ideas were to minimize the role of government intervention and taxation on free markets, as well as the idea of an invisible hand that leads supply and demand. It can be said that Smith laid the foundations of a modern economy.
The answer is: C.
The Chinese Nationalist Party and the the Communist Party of China came together to form an alliance during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Japan tried to invade China.
Explanation:
Before the happening of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the Chinese Civil War was already going on, fought between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of China. However, when Japan tried to invade China in 1937, the then Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek realized that China was ill-prepared for a full fledged war against China, given the chaotic domestic situation. As a result, he decided to unite China against Japan and thus the Nationalists and the Communists came together to form the alliance which was referred to as the "Second United Front".
Answer: President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.
Explanation:
The south winning would be a <em>huge</em> issue in itself, and if they continued to use slaves when the Industrial Revolution came around, there wouldn't be a need for slaves, and the vast expansion of the slave trade would shrink by a lot- as the US wouldn't need them.
Here's the problem:
If we're going into counterfactual history, we have to keep a lot of things in mind.
Was the Industrial Revolution sparked because there were no more slaves? If they still had slaves, would it not have been necessary to obtain and invent machines?
Would we be the United States? Would be have gone at war again from the North still being against slavery? Keep these things in mind.
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