english act heavily taxed goods shipped in the southern colonies and other countries other then England

Answer:

Which one of the following statements best describes the war by 1916?

Germany made great gains on land and sea.

The war reached a stalemate.

The Germans faced strong resistance from the Russians.

The war reached a stalemate.

Scholars and politicians disagree on this question, and both sides have arguments of value. However, the attitude most democratic countries have adopted is that of thinking they DO have responsibilities towards less developed countries. They provide several arguments for this position:

• Most developed democracies engaged in colonialism. The countries that were colonized provided colonial powers with resources and a labour force that contributed to their development. Therefore, rich countries developed at the expense of developing countries.
• A related point is the fact that after decolonization, most powers left without any plan to maintain order. The chaos they left behind has made it difficult for some countries to recover (often including the destruction of previous culture, values, ways of government, etc. that used to maintain order in the communities).
• The Earth's resources belong to all of humanity, and redistribution is justified on these grounds.
• A humanitarian argument. We have a duty to help those people who are suffering, regardless of whether they are our neighbours or not.

Theodore Canot (1804-1860) had a combined French and Italian origin and was a traveller, adventurer and slave trader. His memoirs are a vivid, accurate and valuable testimony about all issues which concerned slave trade.

Thedore was already in a boat with 19, and with 22, in 1826 he joined the slave ship Aerostatica at Havana. This is how he "plunged accidentaly", using his own words, into slave trade, and he ended up being one the most famous and successful slave traders of all times.

He is described as a smart, ambitious, an unscrupulous person,  with "no religion, many vices, and few weaknesses". The beliefs of Canot regarding slavery have to be valued as part of the intellectual history of racism, as his very profitable businesses pertained to the era in which slavery and race were interconnected. In fact, at those times, the belief about the racial inferiority of the slaves was the main force behing the constantly growing trade flows and not the need for labor. Africans were considered sub-humans, and such ideas legitimized the practice. Captain Canot shared these tendencies and exploted the business accordingly.