Farmers were worker who were tied to the land
People are better off working independently of one another. The belief that is most characteristic of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries is that <span>People are better off working independently of one another</span>
NATO was designed to improve on the alliances of the past and to modernize the alliance system in light of the threat of nuclear power. The idea of collective security meant that war could trigger alliances linked on social, political and economic and ideological frameworks as well as a deterrent in terms of nuclear power.
Common Sense was an instant
best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies
were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward.
He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the
creation of a democratic republic. Paine avoided flowery prose. He wrote in the
language of the people, often quoting the Bible in his arguments. Most people
in America had a working knowledge of the Bible, so his arguments rang true.
Paine was not religious, but he knew his readers were. King George was
"the Pharaoh of England" and "the Royal Brute of Great
Britain." He touched a nerve in the American countryside.
The abolitionists helped get slaves to safety in the north using the underground railroad
