The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.
Date: March 25, 1911
Deaths: 146
Location: Asch Building, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Non-fatal injuries: 78
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism. Mercantilism is an economic practice by which governments used their economies to augment state power at the expense of other countries. Governments sought to ensure that exports exceeded imports and to accumulate wealth in the form of bullion (mostly gold and silver).
Confederate army won the battle of chickamauga by spreading the false information that Confederate General Braxton Bragg was retreating. This false information drove the Union Army of the Cumberland back into Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Chickamauga Creek where, after days of battle, Confederates were victorious.
Led by such men as Edmund Ruffin, Robert Rhett, Louis T. Wigfall, and William Lowndes Yancey, this group was dubbed "Fire-Eaters<span>" by northerners. ... The </span>Fire-Eaters<span> helped to unleash a chain reaction that eventually led to the formation of the Confederate States of America and to the American </span>Civil War<span>.</span>
The highest court of Athens, before whom Paul debated, was known as the Areopagus :)
