I don’t know if this is write, but maybe to hide the atrocities that went on in the camps from the rest of the world.
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The British government did take some steps to help the poor. Before the famine, in 1838, the government had passed a Poor Law Act. It established 130 workhouses for the poor around the country, funded by taxes collected from local landlords and farmers. Conditions in the workhouses were grim.</em></u></h2><h2><u><em>
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A) <span>On this day in 1956, the U.S. Congress approves the Federal Highway Act, which allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the largest public construction project in U.S. history to that date.</span>
