The Virginia Resolves declared the principle of "no taxation without representation". The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament to help pay for the French and Indian War. American colonists were affected by these taxes as part of the British empire. In the Virginia Resolves, Virginians protested the Stamp Act, and argued that they should not have to pay taxes to the British government when they did not have representatives in Parliament to speak for them. Hence, the phrase "no taxation with representation" became a key principle in the colonists' struggle for independence.
Republic was the form of government that developed under the Roman Republic and it had the greatest impact on the democratic tradition. It is basically a type of indirect democracy in which the people had the right to chooses the people who had the power of making government decisions.
It was "C. 1932" that saw that highest world unemployment rate during the Great Depression, since this was when the true effects of the Great Crash of 1929 came into full effect.
The largest industry in Philadelphia was textiles. Philadelphia produced more textiles than any other U.S. city; in 1904 the textile industry employed more than 35 percent of the city's workers. The cigar, sugar, and oil industries also were strong in the city.
