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Adam Smith is known as the father of modern free trade. He was a proponent of laissez-faire economic policies and argued against Mercantilism. As an aside, Smith pointed how slavery was a poor economuc investment.
Knights of Labor
An important labor union formed in 1869. It supported equal pay for women, an end to child and convict labor, and other improvements for workers..
They had a right to gain wealth and power.
Mexican immigrants came into the country.
A Custodian
a carpenter(apex)
To push for temperance.
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Tenant farmers used their own tools and animals
Dangerous
Galileo did not propose a heliocentric theory, he agreed with Copernicus and his heliocentric theory.
The Catholic church, at the time, disagreed and they held a huge amount of power and put him on trial.
