A - The defeat of the confederate infantry at Pickett’s charge
Although Lee’s army enjoyed early success, Meade's army managed to hold ground and even break back the Confederates. As the Union held its ground and pushed back the Confederates, they suffered major losses
Answer: 2nd Industrial Revolution changed the way people worked and lived.
Explanation: As industrialization became stronger, and mass production was more common, a new social class emerged: middle class, who was employed by the factories, and was able to acquire many items that they produced in them. Their wages were high enought for them to buy more goods, whiche led to consumerism as a way of life for the working people
The 16th century saw the origins of the scientific revolution in Europe especially centred in the Rennaisance in Italy. Economically this was a response to the burgeoning trade in the Mediterranean between Italian ports and Middle Eastern and North African countries and under the tutelage of rich powerful families like the Medicis and also the transition from feudalism of the Middle Ages to the nascent capitalism in Europe. The geocentric theory of the earth was challenged by Galileo (Italian )and Copernicus (Polish) as a result of the intellectual foment brought in with capitalism. In mining, Georgius Agricola, who was trained as a physician began first-hand investigation of underground mines in the Erzgebirge Mts of Bohemia and wrote the treatise on this called De Re Metallica which was the authority on such mining/milling techniques for 200 years after. This was made possible by the personal investigation of the mines and discussion with the miners and mine managers which was a big break from the classical scholars who often merely speculated on things.
The Declaratory Act of 1766. It was made to give parliament power to make laws.
