Why was slavery dropping before the invention of the cotton gin? A. The South wanted to be like the North, which had gotten rid of slavery.
B. It wasn't worth it to buy slaves since tobacco wasn't selling very well any more.
C. Farmers grew ashamed of the practice and stopped buying slaves.
D. Baseball was becoming more important in the minds of Southern plantation owners.

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the answer is d. tariffs were raised by america's trading partners after the smoot-hawley tariff act, decreasing exports, and declining job rates.

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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