What country got most of it's wealth from slavery, and created a government that keeps them in power?
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Easy, the great old USA!
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Oh, definately the states had power. They were just working out that national stuff at the time of the articles of confederation.
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Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman freed herself, and played a major role in freeing the remaining millions.  She is often called "the Moses of her people."
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Federal government control vs. state's rights.  The North wanted a stronger federal government control, and the Southern states wanted to make their own laws.  Slavery was just one issue.
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China. India is the world's biggest democracy. Population wise. So the US has been working with the Indian Government. But China is still under Communist rule and still hates Capitalists.
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Hamilton was strong central government and industry based. Jefferson was states rights and farming based.
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If the entire world were ruled by one country whose government was fast and efficient.\nPrime example: China.
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Bolivia.\n\nThe richest is Brazil.
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Slavery is the social or de-facto status of specific persons, usually captives or prisoners (or their descendants), who are considered as property or chattel, for the purpose of providing labour and services for the owner or state without the right of the slave to refuse, leave or gain compensation beyond room and board and clothing. Most slaves, historically, were born into that status as at least one of their parents was a slave. Forms of slavery have occurred in nearly all societies in nearly all periods.\n\nFor more links on slavery, please try WIKIPEDIA or a search engine such as google.
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There are 724 of 100,000 inhabitants in the United States incarcerated, which makes the USA the world leader of imprisonment per capita. The USA has about one-quarter of all prisoners on the planet. Without socialized medicine, Americans struggle financially. Money DOES buy some  freedoms. Lack of money is responsible for undersocialization. I am not saying the USA is not the most powerful country on the planet, because I believe it is. The facts are, though, that the citizens of the USA have restricted freedoms. According to Janis Joplin, "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, and nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free." All societies that I am personally aware of have restricted freedoms.
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Their economy:  Cotton was the US's biggest export adn slavery ensured low labor costs
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England, France and Spain colonize N. America.  England's colonies do the best, and they rebel and form their own country (USA) and slowly take over the rest of the country.  During this time, the south decides they don't like the national govt. and rebel.  The south loses and the country is unified.  WWI and WWII, now the US is a superpower.  The USSR collapses and the US is the most powerful nation in the world.  Terrorists fly planes into Trade Towers/Pentagon and then we invade Afghanistan and Iraq.  To be cont...\n\nEach state gets the number of electors equal to the number of senators and represenatives combined.  All electors vote for whoever the popular vote of the state chose.  Whichever candidate gets the majority of the electoral votes, wins.\n\nThere are three branches.  The executive (prez.), legislative (congress with two houses), and judicial (courts).  They each have power over the others in some way (balance of power) so that neither can control the nation by itself.
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Slave Labor is free. Slaves don't get to own property. Is that your idea of a profitable benefit?\n\nIn the USA the wealth of the south was built on a slave based economy. Much like the Nazi's, they could not have accumulated nearly as much wealth if they had actually had to PAY their workers.\n\nThe Nazis, however, had one up on the American slave owners. The people that the Nazi's imprisoned, tortured and murdered were often wealthy property and business owners. Everything owned by the millions of people murdered became the property of the Nazi regime. When I say everything I mean all of their possessions, houses, businesses, bank accounts and even their fillings, eyeglasses and shoes!\n\nAs for the other people in the multiple countries that participated in these exterminations, they happily turned a blind eye to the atrocities being committed around them in exchange for the Nazi's promises of prosperity and national pride.\n\nThere is NOTHING "right" about the "insult", murder or torture of ANY human beings. To this day many people of Germany are ashamed of the legacy of mass murder left for them by Hitler and their own ancestors.
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I think all people should be aware of this history.  Brazil was especially bad about slavery.  Slaves were cheap and expendable labor, and thus no care was given to their treatment, health or comfort.  All native Americans (North and South America) made slaves of their enemies.  In many South American civilizations, such slaves were used as sacrifices to appease the gods (Incas, Aztecs, Mayans and Toltecs to name a few).  What about the Romans and Greeks?  They made slaves of anyone they could get their hands on (including Africans).  The same is true of China.  The same is still true in the Middle East. The fact is, that in the US Europe and Canada, we saw the error of our ways and fixed it (made it illegal).  In fact, in America, we fought a war to end it that cost well over 600,000 lives.  How much more dedicated to ending slavery can you get?  Mexico cannot say the same (nor can many South American countries).  Mexicans just want something to b1tch about.  They're just made because we don't want them coming in illegally and living off of our hard work.
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Economics...that's actually what the Civil War boiled down to, as well.  The Northern States had long since embraced the technological advances of their day (hence their having the time to stand back and see how reprehensible slavery was)  The South was still pretty dependent on physical slave labor, and didn't really embrace technologies as readily.  But even if the south had won that war, slavery would have gone away eventually because it would have simply become too expensive compared to the technology...
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Japan more or less has always been ruled by an emperor over a feudal state.  Most of the power was in the hands of the nobles, shoguns, and samurai.\n\nCheck my source for more info...
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Corrupt governments usually get money in a variety of ways. \n\nTake North Korea. How does North Korea survive as a nation? The people are terribly oppressed. There are very little if any freedoms they enjoy, their agriculture is poor, their manufacturing is poor, and yet North Korea survives.\n\nOne method is brutal exploitation of the citizenry. By creating a police state, you can basically use the citizens as very cheap labor. In return you give them ramshackle housing, just enough food, and clothing to survive.\n\nEssentially, you keep them weak, poor, under educated, and you control what kind of things they see and hear. \n\nOnce you have a dictatorship, you can then invite foreign companies into your home country. You charge the companies a fee for using your resources. (Cheap labor, raw materials, etc.) \n\nHere's another method. \n\nSince your citizenry is in dire straits, you can get foreign aid to help feed the poor. Use the money to advance your police state power. If you manage to be an ally of the US, you can get lots of foreign aid, military weapons, and so forth. If you are willing to let the US put a military base in your country, you'll get lots more funding.\n\nAlso, you can create industries that exploit the Western world. You have cheap labor at your disposal, so you can make things really cheap, and turn around and sell them in Western nations at a huge profit. (Why do you think China has so much money?)\n\nYou could also harbor drug lords to make and sell drugs. You allow them to exist as long as they give the government a cut. \n\nThese are just a few examples of how a corrupt or brutal regime stays in power. \n\nHope this helps.