Religious tolerance really should be a moral imperative as well, since intolerance is so very bad for our character. ... Religion is a matter of faith, of belief, not of evidence, and if we do not have respect for the beliefs of others, it is to our detriment, since a lack of respect diminishes us as human beings.
The first opium war was fought between China and Britain.
It had little support among farmers in the Northeast and the Corn Belt (the eastern Midwest). Free silver was the central issue for Democrats in the presidential elections of 1896 and 1900, under the leadership of William Jennings Bryan, famed for his Cross of Gold speech in favor of free silver.
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The First Estate consisted of the clergy and numbered about 130,000 people who owned approximately 10%
