<span>England was distracted, and the colonies were largely left to their own devices during the civil war in England.
During the English civil war, England let the colonies alone for twenty years. England was consumed with and distracted by domestic matters. This gave the colonies some independence to form a new land, with new ideas, and emerging political philosophies.</span>
The correct answer is A) Increased free speech led to changes in popular opinion. During the French Revolution of 1848, this period of time touched on the Enlightenment Age where people such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire were prominent and who were two philosophers who wrote many texts about the equality of citizens. This was very close to home for the French citizens who were leading miserable lives due to the expenses the French monarchy (an extremely tiny percent of the population vs. the 97 percent population of the proletariat) who were spending unabashedly, while the majority of French people barely had anything to eat.
World-systems theory<span> (also known as </span>world-systems analysis<span> or </span>the world-systems perspective), <span>is a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to </span>world history<span> and </span>social change<span> which emphasizes the </span>world-system<span> (and not </span>nation states<span>) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of </span>social analysis<span>.</span>
The Berlin conference in 1878 was an agreement to divide up African colonies between European powers, such as Germany, Portugal, France< England and Belgium. This was also dubbed "The Scramble for Africa" and led to the exploitation of Africans, notably in Belgian Congo and Rwanda
