Which of the following best identifies the major economic activities of the Spanish colonies? (How did they make their money?)
a. Growing tobacco and building ships
b. Mining for precious metals, farming and ranching
c. Fur trapping and trading
d. Searching for the seven golden cities

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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the northwest ordinance of 1787 guaranteed basic rights for settlers and banned slavery there.

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