The Rise of American Consumerism. At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home to a country quite different from the one they had left four years earlier. ... Jobs were plentiful, wages were higher, and because of the lack of consumer goods during the war, Americans were eager to spend.
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James Madison
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. James Madison wrote the amendments, which list specific prohibitions on governmental power, in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties.
Despite early resistance, in the end, all thirteen colonies joined the confederation.
Q 1 : Simply, the working conditions were terrible during the Industrial Revolution. As factories were being built, businesses were in need of workers. With a long line of people willing to work, employers could set wages as low as they wanted because people were willing to do work as long as they got paid.
Q 2 : Workers faced many problems in American cities in the late 1800s. One problem was overcrowding. Many of the workers lived in very crowded apartment buildings called tenements. This was because they could not afford to pay higher rents for housing.
Q 3 : TERRITORIAL FLORIDA, 1821-1845. Florida becomes a US Territory, with Andrew Jackson as its first governor. Hand-colored Spanish land grant maps were among the documents used to establish ownership of land in Florida. ... Tallahassee established as Florida capital; State legislature meets.
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers (1929-77). Confronted with the evidence of his nation's espionage, President Dwight D.
