Third parties have had a major influence on U.S. policy and political debate despite their minor presence in Congress — currently only one U.S. senator and one member of the House of Representatives is an independent.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Socialists popularized the women’s suffrage movement. They advocated for child labor laws in 1904 and, along with the Populist Party, introduced the notion of a 40-hour work week, which led to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be "elderly voters," since these are the people most likely to vote (far more so than young voters). </span></span>
Constantinople was surrounded on all sides by a defensive wall and was well supplied, making it resistant to sieges. The Ottomans were only able to capture the city due to one of the city gates being left slightly ajar, allowing them to quickly bypass the wall and overrun the defenders.
The navigation acts, the Enlightenment, and the Great Awakening on the colonists, were events that, although different among themselves, achieved the union of all the colonies, something that would be the precursor of the War of Independence. While the Navigation Acts were increased hostilities of all American colonies against the British; the Great Awakening on the colonists caused the Revolution in the long run. The British ministers were a higher class, but the ministers of the Great Awakening could break the rules; the new beliefs were also much more democratic and their message was of equality; also the first important event in which all the colonies could participate. They were both points of union for the 13 colonies.
