The United States restricted the amount of European immigration done, they weren't participating or even a part of the League of Nations, and people were just tired of getting to foreign wars as a whole. Only 150,000 immigrants per year were allowed to immigrate to America in 1929.
Answer:
They challenged the Church for practices that gave the Church too much power over the people.
They raised questions about human rights and advocated political and economic theories.
Explanation:
Enlightenment philosophers were revolutionary thinkers at the time, who questioned the status quo of their era. During this era, the church had a lot of power, and Enlightenment philosophers questioned this power. They also questioned the power of absolute monarchs, deeming absolute monarchy to be against their ideas about human society, democracy and individual rights.
Overpopulation occurred during the First Industrial Revolution, but with the improvement of working conditions in the late 1800s, shortening working hours, the situation improved somewhat and the middle class emerged. This was achieved by many strikes by trade unions and workers. The middle class were skilled workers, officers, accountants and others. Because of better conditions and salary increases, they could meet basic living needs, and save money for other things. So they slowly began to move out of urban areas near unhygienic city neighborhoods. Unlike them, unskilled workers remained in unhygienic urban neighborhoods and lived in city tenements.
