Why is deciding how to produce goods and services so important for every society? a. the decision will force people to forego their individual needs and wants in order to work for the greater good of society. b. the decision can affect how effectively or efficiently a society uses its resources and how well it meets the needs and wants of its population. c. the decision affects which natural resources a society might use, depending on its specific geographic location and financial circumstances. d. the decision encourages the most powerful members of society to behave honestly and fairly, without trying to exert control over capital or labor.

the right choice would be a. culture within the city-state. c. loyalty to the police. d separation by land and sea.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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