On Jan. 20, Kamala Harris will become vice president of the United States – the first woman, the first person of South Asian descent, and the first African American to do so. Harris will also become the first vice president to have graduated from a historically black college or university.
Each of these achievements is significant in its own right. However, the vice presidency itself has traditionally been a relatively insignificant position, though the office has become more influential in recent years.
The economic value of having colonies in the first place was for 3 main reasons
1) attain cheap labour from the native peoples
2) acquire cheap raw materials to bring to the homeland (Europe)
3) open up new markets to trade with
the first two were vital in Britains industrial revolution. Without cheap raw materials, and cheap labourers, the factories and refineries in Britain would have costed far more to maintain and keep supplied. This, in turn, would have slowed down production considerably. There is no doubt in my mind that the industrial revolution would still have taken place in Britain with or without the colonies, but WITH the colonies the process was sped up considerably.
Overall, cheap labour and raw materials attained through Britains colonial interests sped up the industrialisation of the UK.
The historical event that happened on Sunday, October 27,
1929 is called the Crash of 1929. This was the worst financial panic the United
States of America have ever seen. The stockholders were having a meeting to
obtain authorization for a stock split.
I believe the answer is: Immigrants were associated with anarchism and communism
During that period, united states was involved in the cold war against the Soviet Union. At that time, most people were scared that the agents from communist countries could come into united states through immigration process, which create the anti-immigration hysteria.
