Minnie A. Hardin wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt to share her bitterness against the government programs who give out financial support to unemployed people.
She thinks that these government programs, instead of helping people get back on their feet to look for work, are enabling people to laze about and wait for government hand-outs without exerting effort to better their lives.
She beliefs that it is very unfair for people like her to work very hard for her living and see those who are able to work but chose not to relying completely on government assistance.
my brain had to process that for a while
Battle of Saratoga-
Convinced France to recognize the colonies independence
Continental army captured 5000 troops
Battle of Trenton-
Washington and his army crossed the Delaware river on dec 25
Capture of the hessian troops improved the Continental army’s morale,
Hope this helps :)
Because it offers the historian an objective snapshot of the public sentiment of the time, which the cartoonist (should be) distilling for their readers, according to their feelings, for mass appeal. I say objective as it is usually very easy to decipher their subjective viewpoint according to the publication. The value of this is that it is tapping into how the masses 'feel' rather than how subjective facts can be built to form historical opinion. It becomes especially valuable prior to this century, when public sentiment is harder to garner as we were less technologically advanced.
I feel like “The voyages were risky, and there was no insurance to cover the risk” is the answer. Investors didn’t want to lose money and the only way that they would somehow break even on the cost would be if the voyage found riches.
