Bonanza farms were huge farms that were owned by companies. This ownership allowed the farms to have more access to funds. Land could be cheaply purchased at the time which led to them gaining more and more acreage. Often, these companies would buy land that was close to railways. This would make the shipping of goods more accessible and contributed to their great profits.
The Code of Hammurabi can tell us much about ancient Babylonian society, but cannot show us everything. The law code was written for the audience of Babylonian people in its own day, especially the scribes and officers of the law. So there are many questions we would have from a distance much later in history that people then would have understood without needing explanation. The intention of the law code was to inform people of laws and punishments, not to give later generations a full view of the whole of Babylonian life. The law code was prepared by those in power in the government of Hammurabi -- we don't get any response from the people or indication of how the people then viewed the laws. And ultimately, the law code is written in a detached, impersonal way -- as legal documents generally are written. We don't get a feel for the personal lives or feelings of people living at that time in Babylonia.
Sons of Liberty merchants started to boycot British goods. That has cut the American purchases from England by 50% effecting British merchants dramatically.
Because they wanted to expand there territories
