In Victorian society, rich and poor could find themselves living very close together, sometimes just streets apart. During the 19th century more people moved into the towns and cities to find work in factories. Cities filled to overflowing and London was particularly bad. At the start of the 19th century about 20% of Britain’s population lived there, but by 1851 half the population of the country had set up home in London.
London, like most cities, was not prepared for this great increase in people. People crowded into already crammed houses. Rooms were rented to whole families or perhaps several families. If there was no rooms to rent, people stayed in lodging houses.
During feudalism, European countries were governed by an absolut king, who held all the power and it was believed that he had been appointed directly by God. The feudal system was divided into Three States of Realm or social classes. The First and Second State were constituted by the privileged ones who owned the land and who were the aristocracy and the clergy, and the Third States was consituted by the servants of the former states, mainly peasants, craftsmen or small traders.
The Third State worked within the lands owned by a First or Second State aristocrat. They enjoyed the protection of their lord, and in exchange they worked his land. <u>This was the way in which the feudal society gave some kind of benefitial retribution to each of the three states</u> (3rd state: protection and a home, 1st and 2nd: free workers).
Anyway, even tough they were given land to grow crops, the living conditions of the Third State were extremely hard. They did not own the crops they harvested, so they had to hand in fixed amount to the harvest to the lord and from the amount collected on top of the tax, they could eat. If some year, the harvests were damaged and they did not collect enough, they had nothing to eat.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born into modest circumstances in upstate New York, he entered the then-fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio refinery.Rockefeller had a tendency to be generous because he wanted the future good will of his new partners and employees. “He treated everybody fairly,” concluded one oil man. “When we sold out he gave us a fair price. Some refiners tried to impose on him and when they found they could not do it, they abused him
He wanted europe to stay out of the busness of the americas
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