So you can live :/ I guess
The printing press was important to the spread of the Renaissance and Humanist thinking because it made it easier to print books and pamphlets. People then soon read more often and understood the ideas written in the book or pamphlet. At the time it was the priests who only knew how to read, so they would plant ideas into people's heads causing them to not have ideas of their ideas. Because of the printing press, people started to learn to think on their own.
Progressive ideas are used in preparing for the military is because you don't want to get your country bankrupt and you also don't want to throw everything you got right away
The idea of "popular sovereignty" means that government is created by the people and for the people, since this dictates that the people are ultimate in charge of who is elected to the government.
This is called a federal republic. The states have their own laws that apply to them. They also have a set of federal laws that apply to all members of a federation. The United States are a federal republic because the government is a federal and nation wide, but the states have their own powers too.
