Luther's ideas lead him to break with the church and to a new faith. Martin Luther did not agree with some of the practices and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, for example, he rejected "indulgence", which was a practice used by the Roman Catholic Church to reduce the punishment one was supposed to undergo for sins. He wrote his Ninety five Theses of 1517, where he discussed this practice. Pope Leo X asked him to renounce to all of his writings but he refused, he was excommunicated by the Pope and condemned by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Luther believed that the only source of divine knowledge from God is the Bible, he thought that the bible should be translated from Latin vernacular languages so that it could be understood by everybody. He translated the Bible to German. All of his ideas were rejected and prohibited by the church. His beliefs led him to break with the church and start what he called the Christian or Evangelical faith, now called Lutheranism.
It was created because antifederalists (people who opposed having a very strong government) were afraid of their rights being abused. So, they invented the Bill of Rights to make sure that no person could ever do it a second time.
If you remember, they were traumatized because the British king would be unfair towards them.
<span>Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. Though the Union victory had given some 4 million slaves their freedom, the question of freed blacks’ status in the postwar South was still very much unresolved. Under black codes, many states required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested, fined and forced into unpaid labor. Outrage over black codes helped undermine support for President Andrew Johnson and the Republican Party.</span>
I don't think it should be taken at face value because those ways could be the main ways to earn money, but it could probably be the least reliable or successful ways. This sentence could just be a lie taken literaly in which has a hidden meaning. This could be a meaning that you might not get, in which will leave you ripped off.
Trade to Western Europe grew as a result of the <span>Crusades opening travel to the Near East and bringing back new goods</span>
