People in towns didn't have to give their produce to feudal lords and were independent if they paid their taxes, and the taxes were not as high as they were for people in the land. This caused many people to abandon their feudal lords and move to cities where they would work freely.
By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force them to labor as slaves.
<span>African-Americans helped the Republican party in the South by voting for Republicans in local, state, and national elections during the era of Reconstruction. The era of Reconstruction, which took place right after the Civil War, resulted in African-American men gaining the ability to vote. They used this power to support Republicans, as Lincoln and many other Republicans advocated for more legal rights for African-Americans. Besides voting rights, most Republicans supported the 14th amendment. This amendment helped to grant citizenship to all former slaves who were born on US soil. </span>
They are all examples of Sediments
Life was very much, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", due to Hammurabi's code. The laws were based off of revenge rather than justice. Basically controled anarchy. His reign was very successful, so much so, that some parts of his code even influence modern law.
