Before the panama canal people from East coast of America who wanted to go to Asia had to either sail around south America which took months or sail towards Asia and go around Africa which took even longer. The panama canal was a short cut right in the middle of central America which cut navigation time in half. Hope I helped. :)
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During many decades of the 19th century Industrial Revolution, workers conditions were terrible and often inhuman. They were exploited by factory owners. They worked too long, often for 15-20 hours per day; received miserable salaries; worked and lived in unsanitary conditions; they and their families were malnourished and in poor health. This situation affected women, as well as men and children. In the case of women, they had an additional problem which was the fact that they did not have enought time to take cafe of their children, as they had to spend so many hours outside home working in factories.
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Similarities:
-The two documents are popular in their countries of origin with the Magna Carta being popular in Britain and the Declaration being popular in the United States.
- The documents were both borne out of rebellion; the Magna Carta was first established after conflicts between the King and rebel barons and the Declaration was established after conflict between the thirteen American states and Great Britain.
-The two documents both sought to assert individual human freedoms and rights.
Differences:
- Where the Declaration confirms that power rests with the people, the Magna Carta asserted that power rests with the sovereign until changes through the Six Statutes sought to limit these powers.
- In the Magna Carta the rights of the people are granted by the government while in the Declaration, people's rights are God given. The Declaration was based on universal principles regarding all human beings but the Magna Carta was based on a particular group of people (barons) but which was later changed to the more inclusive term any freeman.
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A political cartoon shows a smiling elephant running down an alley toward an overturned garbage can. <span>The trash is spilled on the ground. The garbage can is labeled McCarthyism.
</span><span>The statement which summarizes the idea in this cartoon is:
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The Republicans were using the McCarthy hearings for political gain.
