One of the most significant conquests in history happened in the early 7th century in the deep interior of the Arabian Peninsula.
The introduction of a new religion, the Islam, by the Prophet Mohammed united numerous Arab tribes. With their new found religious fervor, Arab armies marched forth to spread the word of Islam.
What most accurately describes the rise of the Arab Empire is that:
A) The Arab Empire started in Arabia and soon conquered Syria, Persia, northwestern India, northern Africa, and Spain.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
The Compromise of 1850 was the result of the debate over the equal representation of pro-slavery States in Congress. With the Mexican Cession, the balance seemed to favor the abolitionist States. Therefore a crisis began, with the most important matter being the incorporation of California. President Taylor felt that the matter was used by the South as a bargain chip, and finally declared California a State. Clay then brokered the Compromise, and its results were administered by Franklin Pierce who supported the general lines of the Compromise, but failed in the end to address at full the growing abyss between slaver's States and the anti-slavery States. The result was the crisis of 1860 and the break of the Civil War.
In the <em>Lochner v. New York</em> case of 1905, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not <u>impose limits on the number of hours that employees could work.</u>
Further details:
A law passed in 1895 in the state of New York mandated that bakery employees could not work more than 10 hours a day and not more than 60 hours in a week. A bakery owner named Joseph Lochner filed suit against the state, claiming the law was unconstitutional. At the time, the Supreme Court decision was based on the idea that such laws violated an employee's "freedom of contract." The majority of justices saw such a right implicit in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, thinking that if employees agreed to work a heavy number of hours it was their right to do so.
In the time since the Lochner case, the Supreme Court has gone in the other direction, allowing laws that impose reasonable restrictions on businesses. An example would be <em>West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish </em>(1937), which upheld the constitutionality of a minimum wage law passed in Washington state.
