How did trade slowly help win some political freedoms for medieval townspeople?

Answer & Explanation:

Through trade townspeople grew wealthier; as their wealth increased, they forced nobles and kings to grant them basic rights. ... It was to expensive for most nobles or knights to maintain them and a new weapon, the cannon, made them obsolete.

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.