John Locke, an English philosopher and physician, is regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, whose work greatly contributed to the development of the notions of social contract and natural rights.
In the late 1800s, workers organized unions to solve their problems. Their problems were low wages and unsafe working conditions. First, workers formed local unions in single factories. These unions used strikes to try to force employers to increase wages or make working conditions safer.
The enlightenment changed the mind set of people where they used reasoning and observation and this led to development of scientific revolution.
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Enlightenment came in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries majorly in France and with the coming of this, the mind set of the humans changed and they paid more attention to observation and experiment which led to the formation of the laws and moved away from superstitions. Because of use of human mind for observation, this led to the development of the scientific revolution where more importance was given to reasoning.
John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt were two entrepreneurs believed they were examples of social Darwinism at work
Other countries took over from the Ottoman Empire after WWI. Like Britian and France, for oil, and protenting the Suez canal.