The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. The primary motivation for creating the Federal Reserve System was to address banking panics. Other purposes are stated in the Federal Reserve Act, such as "to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States. It is what controls the money supply in the US.
Both were born into slavery, and escaped into slavery. While Tubman physically guided slaves along the route to freedom, Douglass wrote and spoke to white audiences about the travails of living first as a slave and then as a black man, subject to the racism of the time.
The end of the feudal systems that defined the European Middle Ages was
primarily caused by "<span>(C) the emergence of trade and a middle class of merchants," since this created more opportunities for people to "break free" from the land-holding system. </span>
