The british controlled canada and other french colonies
He was an American labor leader and civil rights activist
In a social system, there are peers and strangers to distract one from pursuing their work. While chatting with others, you may forget your train of thought or a good idea. People are likely to take you away from your work more so than a physical system (in which you can always turn off the TV, but not get people to quiet down)
Free slaves as union forces won back territory, abolish slavery, and the war was being fought against slavery, so Europe gave no support to the South.
