George III was King of Great Britain from 1760 to 1820. He was England's longest ruler before Queen Victoria, he is most well known for being the English King during the American Revolutionary War.
Answer: The Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) announced that the Thirteen Colonies would regard themselves as independent sovereign states, and were no longer under the British rule. The Declaration contended that <em>King George III had violated the agreement</em> between himself as a governor and the Americans as the governed. This targeted King George III as the primary reason for colonial discontent.
King George III never fully recovered from the loss of the American colonies.
Aside from the pay, the reason Texas cowboys re-upped for a cattle drive was for the adventure. Although the drive might be boring at times, with weeks and sometimes months on the trail with nothing to see but dust and flat lands, natural and man-made challenges occurred occasionally. One of the most frightening challenges encountered in a drive was crossing a river. A swift river could carry a man, a horse or a cow. A slow moving river might camouflage quicksand and deep holes both of which were dangerous also.
Earlier in the 1700s, the French & Indian war happened in which Great Britain was involved in. They made taxes so they could pay all of their soldiers for fighting in the war.
Working.During the Industrial Revolution, that took place in the late nineteenth century, many cities in the United States were booming with large factories that were usingnew advances in technology to expand their business. Many industrial workers now worked in factories or mines (Nash, 531).In Chicago you had the Chicago Meat Packing Industry, the largest slaughter house in the world that could now control every aspect of the meat packing industry. Over 25 thousand men, women, and children worked for the Chicago Meat Packing Industry. Processing 14 million animals a year (BOA Episode 14). With advances in shipping methods, and the invention of the refrigerated railroad car, an animal could now be shipped to, killed, butchered, and sent out for sale all in the slaughter house. The workers in the slaughter house were often not very skilled labors and the company took advantage of that. To keep wages and complaints low, the packing house would pick workers each morning that would come and line up, hoping for work. This meant that you never knew if you would have a job at the packing house because there was always someone else trying to take your place. The working conditions were disgusting at the packing house. In the winter time many workers would put their feet inside of a freshly killed animalto keep warm, as the factory was not heated and Chicago would become very coldin the winter months.
