The Oregon Treaty, negotiated between Great Britain and the United States, settled peacefully the question of where British Canada ended and the US-controlled Oregon Territory began.
The economy of India was transformed by the British in several ways, but perhaps the greatest way was that they transformed into a market economy with government oversight.
Betty Friedan's argument in <em>The feminine mystique</em> (1963) is made from the point of view of psychology and sociology through the analysis of surveys and interviews with women. Friedan was trying to explain why the surveys showed women were unhappy in their domestic lives.
The author found that women being educated to believe that domestic life should be their primary objective made women feel worthless.
This education for a domestic life happened through family, school, college, and media. There weren't many places women could get out of this destiny.
They felt worthless because a domestic life by itself doesn't provide a sense of realization and accomplishment. That's why, according to Friedan, it was so common to see women seeking fulfillment through community projects and the like.
<em>The feminine mystique</em> was a bestseller and one of the starters of the second-wave feminism in the 60s.
A. Cash crops such as tobacco and sugar required many workers.
