<span>Child labour. Many children worked long hours for very low pay. They were also susceptible to maimed limbs, poor health and early death.
Higher concentration of workers in new mill towns led poor sanitation and outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as cholera.
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The slave trade. In the early part of the Industrial revolution, some industries, such as cotton were still dependent on the slave trade.</span></span>
In this quote, Thurgood Marshall is talking about the time between the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (which was supposed to free slaves in the Confederacy) to the Brown vs. Board case which ruled that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.
The reason he brings up these two events is because it shows how little progress American society has changed in these 90 years. Even though African-Americans were supposed to be free citizens after the Emancipation Proclamation, they were still treated as second class citizens in the US. They were constantly targets of voter discrimination, violence, and prejudice.
Wanax was another name for a Mycenaean king.
No, he did not achieve his peace without victory. It was to much of a burden on Germany and the League of Nations didn't include the United States of America.
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John Jay is best known as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, serving from September 1789 to June 1795. He was born in New York City, New York. He also lived in Rye, Bedford, Katonah, and Westchester County, all in New York.
