Why did the United States face an energy crisis in 1973? The Vietnam War drained America of its energy supplies. A huge amount o
f oil was lost when the oil tanker “Exxon Valdez” crashed on Alaska’s coast. Middle Eastern countries established an oil embargo. The United States boycotted oil shipments from Arab nations. NextReset
It was the Enlightenment principles of "A. John Locke" that Thomas Jefferson build upon when he drafted the Declaration of Independence. He had read these works at a very young age.