12 percent decrease between 2251.35 and 1975.86
When voters do not believe they have political efficacy, it generally means that "<span>A. Voters believe their votes will have no impact in an election", since this impacts their ability to change government and governmental policies. </span>
The prairie settlers endured all of the following hardships except a) the sod was difficult to plow. The prairie settlers were easily able to work the land once settled into their respective homes. However, because of a lack of railroads at the time all livestock and goods were transported by agriculturists and because of the vast geography of the prairie, there were many tough weather conditions to deal with. Native Americans were also settled on the land, so this caused conflict between the two groups as well.
During the (first) American revolution, soldiers who joined the Continental Army during the spring or summer but went AWOL in the fall or winter were known as "summer soldiers".
<span>Many of the "summer soldiers" were farmers who would join up with the Army when their crops were planted, fight with them during the summer, and go back home to help with the harvest. Others would stay with the Army through the harvest, but sneak off in the middle of the night once the weather got cold. </span>
<span>Meanwhile, the people who supported the revolutionaries when the revolution was going well -- but not otherwise -- were called "sunshine patriots". </span>
<span>So in the famous passage from "The Crisis" where Thomas Paine wrote: </span>
<span>The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country </span>
<span>he was talking -- quite literally in the former case -- about the fair-weather friends of the Revolution.</span>