What was life like for peasants under the tokugawa shogunate?

a) they paid high taxes and mainly lived in poverty

b) they earned a living by traveling as merchants

c) they were provided considerable opportunities for social mobility

d) they grew wealthy providing food for the armies of the shoguns

The life of peasants under the Tokugawa Shogunate was they paid high taxes and mainly lived in poverty.

Option A

Explanation:

The main job of the peasants in the Tokugawa Shogunate was to grow crops and do farming. These peasants barely owned the land on which they could only live or some of them did not even own land and they had to rent it from the land lords and had to work as tenant farmers. They also had to pay rent, sometimes in the form of rice, and all these situations led to them living in poverty.

here are some events that to cause increased conflict between the north and south

1) mexican cession- gaining modern day california, utah, arizona, and new mexico from mexico. caused southern and northern politicians to fight over whether or not there would be slavery in these newly acquired territories.

2) uncle tom's cabin- this famous book described the cruelty of slavery in the south during the antebellum period, causing more northerners to support abolition and southerners to resent the book as they felt it unfairly depicted southern society.

3) kansas- nebraska act- disagreements over whether or not kansas and nebraska would be free or slave states caused issues between northern and southern politicians in congress.

4) bleeding kansas- this fighting took place in kansas after congress allowed this territory to vote on whether or not they would have slavery. citizens were killed and buildings were destroyed during this fighting.

what are local authorities doing to fix the problem

explanation: