The main reason why America's ties with the Allies were stronger than the ties with the Central Powers was because of economic reasons. The Allies purchased large amounts of weapons and war goods from the United States. Germany was developing its own weapons thus it didn't enlist for American supplies.
The social inequality in the English class system was stark.Wealthy and middle-class peoplethrived with all of the new opportunities created during the Industrial Revolution.Industrialproduction increased tremendously, bringing wealth and power to Great Britain and this class ofpeople.However, the poor really did not benefit much from the changes. There was noregulation of child labor.They worked long hours and were under paid.The working conditionswere horrible, and because unemployment was so high, the workers did not have a voice in<span>demanding better treatment
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During the Taiping Rebellion, the peasants rebelled. It was mostly a civil war which killed scores of people. The movement was a millenarian movement. that just means that it occurred because of religious ideology. The movement was led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed he was Jesus' younger brother. Hong Xiuquan wanted to instill social reforms such as collective property, equality for women and replacing Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist and Chinese folk religion with Christianity.
