It was a social and economic system.
Many critics believe that the policy of the British government during the Irish Famine: <span>A) contributed to food shortages
During the Irish Famine, many people suffered due to the food shortage that caused by massive increase in population due to a constant flow of Immigrants from Ireland. The landlords and the wealthy of course kept a massive food supply within their reach and the British Government basically did nothing about it.</span>
To understand the end of Reconstruction, it's important to take the following facts into account:
- 1872: The General Amnesty Act was passed by the Congress. This act removed restrictions placed upon Confederate officials.
- 1873: the Fourteenth Amendment was scarcely interpreted in the Slaughterhouse cases. This meant that state law was violationg individuals' civil rights.
- 1875: The Civil Rights Act of this year, which allowed black people to be part of a jury and which didn't allow racial discrimination in public places, was eventually not enforced.
- Finally in 1876 the idea of the Reconstruction was left aside by both parties and in 1883 the Civil Rights Act was declared unconstitutional.
All of these reasons, caused the end of the Reconstruction and made Republicans forsake black people, finally causing the infringement of civil rights and full segregation.
<em />In the early phases of the industrial revolution (or industrialization), both Germany and the United States experienced a reduction in agricultural regions and an increase in industrial regions. In other words, agricultural land was used to build factories which housed machinery that made goods. For example factories were built to accommodate textile looms. Before the Industrial Revolution, the weaving of cloth and textiles was mainly the task of the farmer's wives. It was done on a small scale, enough for what each household needed, and maybe some extra to sell or exchange for dry goods. With the increase in trade between Europe, the United States, and Asia, there was a greater demand for textiles and cloth to be woven quicker. This gave rise to big textile mills being built.
