True, Robert Smalls was born into slavery in South Carolina and was hired out to work on steamboats as a youth. He was born an African-American slave, and during and after the Civil War became a ship's pilot, sea captain, as well as a politician. He freed himself, his family and other slaves and convinced Lincoln to let African-American soldiers fight during the war.
The premise of The Organization of Man is that conformity to <span>bureaucratic norms could make workers incapable of independent thought. This means that Americans became comfortable being part of big and booming companies instead of living as creative individuals. Businesses prevented men from becoming who they really are, who they were really supposed to be.</span>
1. Absolute monarchy, or absolutism, meant that the ultimate authority to run a state was in the hands of a king who ruled by divine right. Divine right was the claim that a king was given his position by some higher power. ... Because kings and queens were given their authority by god, their power was unconditional
2. An oligarchy is a power structure that allows a few businesses, families, or individuals to rule. They have enough power to turn the county to benefit them to the exclusion of other members. They maintain their power through their relationships with each other.
When Upton Sinclair said, “I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach,” he likely meant that his novel The Jungle made people more outraged about the meat they were eating than the injustices facing the typical meat industry employee.
