Answer: Safer working conditions in factories.
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As shown in the extract above, workers in America used to suffer unspeakable horrors whilst working in factories due to the reluctance of business owners to make factory conditions better as they chased profits and ignored the welfare of their fellow men.
Workers Rights movements rose up to lobby for workers which led to reform movements in states such New York and Illinois where laws were created directing that factories introduce safer working conditions to reduce workplace injuries. About 22 states even passed work injury compensation laws by 1913.
Answer: Georgia became a royal colony in 1752. The trustees were unable to establish self-government and gave up before the 21 year charter had expired. Freemen were given the right to vote (unless they were Roman Catholics) and the people elected an assembly. The governor was appointed by the king.
Answer: The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1900 ended with almost all of Africa being controlled by a small number of European states. Racing to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves, the partition of Africa was confirmed in the Berlin Agreement of 1885, with little regard to local differences. By 1905, control of almost all African soil was claimed by Western European governments
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<span>a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or in directly by them. A</span>ny body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
One of the causes of the Black death was the involvment of traders and merchants coming from sea and bringing the disease with them. It soread easily due to poor hygiene at the time and not so great medical practices. It killed around 50% of Europes population and and had around a 99-100% fatality rate. It originated in China, but again, it was brought to europe by traders.
The great famine was caused by a disease that destroyed the potato crop which happened to be one of the more available foods at the time. About a million died in result of this and people began to leave Ireland immigrating to places such as the us, australia, britain or canada.