<span>Railroad, steel mill, oil and other industrial businessmen were called robber barons. The connotation was often used during the American Great Depression in the 1930's. It was alleged the owners such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon and John D. Rockefeller amassed their fortunes using unethical and exploitative practices to build their financial empires. This included not just unfair and harsh treatment of workers but also accusations of swindling and bribery of officials to accomplish monopolies, licensing, zoning, and other favorable treatment to build and expand the businesses.</span>
The correct answer is A crop failure had led to a famine in Ireland.
The famine is called the Great Famine and caused not only much migration, but also caused many a person's death. That is one of the reason's why there are actually more Irish people in the US nowadays than in Ireland itself.
Copper coins, back then it wasn't considered a valuable metal
Answer and Explanation:
Both the liberals and conservatives had different views about the motivations of rioters and looters: The liberals made a lot of emphasis on the social causes of the rioting and looting. The liberals perception was that poverty, joblessness, and socio-economic needs motivated the rioters and looters to riot and loot.
On the other hand, the conservatives viewed the rioters as uncivilized people who had to be taken out of the way in order to restore law and order. The conservatives felt that the rioters and looters were opportunists who wanted to use the trial verdict to break the law.
Generally, the liberals and conservatives dissociated the uprising (rioting and looting) from the trial verdict, and believed that the rioters and looters acted from a need that could be satisfied by good collaboration between the government, and the businesses that prospered as a result of government policies.
