One Guideline to Evaluating the Ethics of a Particular Action

question 4

True/False

One guideline to evaluating the ethics of a particular action is to "let your conscience be your guide."

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Definitions:

Land Monopoly

A situation where a significant portion of land is owned or controlled by a single individual or entity, limiting access for others.

Sherman Land

Sherman Land relates to land redistribution proposals during the Reconstruction Era, most notably General William Tecumseh Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15, which intended to allocate land to formerly enslaved families.

Sharecropping System

A form of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land, prevalent in the post-Civil War South.

Plantation Owner

An individual who owns a large agricultural estate primarily worked by enslaved people or laborers, historically significant in the context of slavery and colonialism.