Which of the Following Statements Is Accurate About the Work

question 103

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is accurate about the work done by southern slaves?

• A) The leasing of slaves ended by 1800.
• B) Slaves were prohibited from supervising white laborers.
• C) By the time of the Civil War,about 200,000 worked in industrial-type occupations.
• D) The federal government used only ex-slaves to build public structures in the South.
• E) After not being able to abolish slavery in the 1830s in Virginia,the state banned slaves from doing work in tobacco fields.

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The condition in which resources are allocated in a way that maximizes the net benefit to society or achieves an optimal outcome where no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off.

Beneficiaries

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Socially Optimal

A situation in which resources are allocated in the most efficient way from the society's point of view, maximizing total welfare.

Pollution

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