Regiment, in most armies, a body of troops headed by a colonel and organized for tactical control into companies, battalions, or squadrons.
Answer:
While most people were Africans, a small group of French aristocrats controlled the government.
Explanation:
The slave owners, both white and people of color, feared the slaves and knew that the incredible concentration of slaves (the slaves outnumbered the free people 10-1) required exceptional control. This, in part, accounts for the special harshness and cruelty of slavery in Saint-Domingue.
The 1920s have also been labeled the
Jazz age, in addition to the nickname "the Roaring Twenties".
To add, the Jazz Age was a post-World War I movement in the 1920s from which
jazz music and dance emerged. Jazz has lived on in American popular culture,
even though the era ended with the outset of the Great Depression in 1929.
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.
Americans had more leisure time in the 1950s because many Americans were working shorter hours during the work week. There was also more vacation time from jobs. <span>Another reason Americans had more leisure time during the 1950s is because there was new time saving technology, such as the washing machine.</span>
