The League of Nations was formed to unify many countries. It wasn't very efficient. The United Nations was essentially an improved version of the League of Nations.
Rural people had farms and thus needed more workers so they just had a bunch of kids to help out. if the city they didn't need a bunch of kids.
The <span>American Revolution was a radical break with the past </span>in the sense that no colony had ever overthrown its colonizing power before, and independence was considered almost impossible. It preserved the status quo in that the Americans actually adopted a form of government that was very similar to the British.