<span>As workers grew tired of toiling for the benefit of capitalists instead of for themselves, some of them banded together to form the first national labor union, the knights of labor, in 1869.</span>
The main reason why we know more about Hammurabi's Code than other early forms of law is because Hammurabi's Code was the first (or at least one of the first) codes of law to be permanently inscribed on stone instead of issued on paper or through word of mouth.
The Southern states opposed emacipation
