Since in colonial North America, many people did not have the luxuries we have now, their entire lives revolved around work. Without a good harvest season or another product to trade for food, a family could easily go hungry and starve to death. As exemplified through Jamestown's "Starving Time," the leader, whose name escapes me at this time, decided that if the colonists were not willing to work, they would not receive any food. The second question is more of an opinion question that I cannot answer for you.
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examples would be vegetable oil, milk, water, etc.
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basically anything you would measure in a glass measuring cup, you could do in a dry measuring cup.
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The gravitational torque between the Moon and the tidal bulge of Earth causes the Moon to be constantly promoted to a slightly higher orbit and Earth to be decelerated in its rotation. As in any physical process within an isolated system, total energy and angular momentum are conserved.