This is because big armies become potential threats to other countries, other countries started forcing alliances in order to secure land
Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787<span> by American </span>farmers <span>against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. ... The rebellion took its name from its symbolic leader, Daniel Shays of </span>Massachusetts<span>, a former captain in the Continental army.</span>
Kamikaze
In WWII the Japanese has kamikaze pilots who would crash into things to blow it up. Basically killing them selves for there country.
Sarah Josepha Hale founded Ladies' Magazine in 1828.