Why did the middle class, especially merchants, tend to support the strengthening of central royal power?

a. they believed that a more unified government meant a more stable economic system.
b. they believed that a more unified government meant a more accountable ruler.
c. they believed that a more unified government meant a more democratic society.
d. they believed that a more unified government meant more flexible cultural norms.

equal pay act of 1963. the equal pay act, signed in to law by president john f. kennedy on june 10, 1963, was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that addressed wage differences based on gender. they felt that this would prevent employers from undercutting future wages for men.

which colony was founded, in part, as a place for english debtors?

a) georgia

southern north america: yucatán peninsula in southern mexico extending into northern guatemala, and northern belize. these moist forests on the yucatán peninsula of south-eastern mexico are characterized by a tropical humid climate with little topographic relief.

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