Knights were indeed lower than vassals and held less prestige in medieval society. It's not true though, that knights didn't have enough prestige in medieval society. Vassals swore to the king or the ruler of a region, whereas knights often swore to vassals, so they still had people under them, but they were not at the top.
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Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision believing Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories. Later, in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by granting citizenship to all those born in the United States, regardless of color.
Technology caused the Industrial revolution because the main point of the IR was the fact that the US became more modernized and were able to produce more for less. In the industrial revolution, both were achieved with the use of mass-production, which made most of the mass-produced products more affordable for more people, and so the sellers sold more.
the Industrial revolution affects our society today, because without the sudden invention of many things (cars, typewriters, railroads) we wouldn't be a world power as we are today. Also, without the IR, we may have lost more wars throughout the years then we actually did
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