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Henry Charles Carey, a Common card
Henry Charles Carey was an American publisher, political economist, and politician from Pennsylvania.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Henry Charles Carey quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Henry Charles Carey card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Carey was also a critic of the ______ of slavery from an economic perspective.
Answer
practice. Carey was also a critic of the practice of slavery from an economic perspective. From the Henry Charles Carey article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Silesia. History of Silesia 87 · Black Sea Grain Initiative 84 · Henry Charles Carey 81 · 1963 Atlantic hurricane season 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
History of navigation. History of navigation 26,000 · Black Sea Grain Initiative 20,000 · List of Washington wildfires 15,000 · Henry Charles Carey 11,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the leading 19th-century economist of the American School and a chief economic adviser to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase during the American Civil War.
- Carey's central work is The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial, which criticizes the system of laissez faire capitalism and free trade expounded by Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo in favor of the American System of developmentalism through the use of tariff protection and state intervention to encourage national self-sufficiency and unity.
- Carey was also a critic of the practice of slavery from an economic perspective.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Henry Charles Carey article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Henry Charles Carey
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Henry Charles Carey (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
