Railroads and internet are similar because they connect people from one side of a country or state to another. The railroad was a major innovation just like the internet is considered today.
<span>The Declaration of Independence wasn't signed on July 4, 1776. On July 1, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence.
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Answer:
B. They were inspired by other successful revolutions around the world.
Explanation:
The heroes and fathers of Latin American independence were acquainted with the ideas of Enlightenment. They had read Rousseau, Voltaire and other notorious 18th-century writers. They closely followed the French Revolution and found great inspiration in its lofty ideals, in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Some of them even went to Europe to study and there, they joined the French army to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, motivated by a belief in the ideas of the revolution. Another source of inspiration was the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the USA, the fight of North Americans to be free from British rule.
The main reason why most Americans rejected Marxism in the early 1900s is because the United States economy was doing quite well thanks to the Industrial Revolution--the core ideals of which went against the main ideals of Marxism.
The answer is B, moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the rest of the world.
