Which statement best describes a benefit of civic participation?

Without civic participation we would not be a democracy. A benefit of it is that we have representation that were voted on by WE THE PEOPLE(through civic participation) 

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t