3. The literacy rate began to rise as interest in learning grew.
4. Books became available to many people throughout Europe.
Before the results of the printing press, when Johannes Gutenberg invented it in 1440, only about thirty percent of European adults were literate (could read and write). His invention flooded Europe with printed material which is when literacy rates began to rise after interest in learning increased.
Naturalization: the process that give someone citizenship in a new country.
Participate: to take an active part in something.
Resident alien: a person living in a country who is not a citizen.
Citizen: a member of a nation who is entitled to its protection.
Great Depression<span>the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s</span>
