A) 1st. This amendment allowed freedom of speech, freedom of the press (news media), and the right for people to assemble in a peaceful manner.
Before the American Civil War, Southern ministers used scripture to defend slavery from the pulpit. This is an example of the use of religion to legitimate social inequalities.
When resources in a society are distributed unevenly, there is social inequality typically through norms of allocation, the gender and the social definition of every person.
Aristotle was the 1st Greek philosopher to analyze how people can use reason to reach logical conclusions.
The economic base in the North and South varied substantially. The South was primarily agricultural and relied primarily on the labor of the enslaved as the driving engine of the economy. In the North, non-slave, free labor created an industrial base founded on industry, factories and maritime culture.
