Answer: Governments are given their power by the people. People have the right to change their government.
Explanation: The philosophers of the Enlightenment established that <u><em>governments are given their power by the people</em></u>. They also established that <u><em>people have the right to change their government.</em></u> The Enlightenment was an age of rationalism and empiricism. John Locke was one of the most important and most influential philosophers in politics.
The north used the rising number of immigrants to staff the industrial economy (factory jobs, warehouse jobs, etc...) the south felt no need to employ immigrants on their plantations because the invention of the cotton mill had made slavery a more economical option.
