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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
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This period of time was called the first “Civil Rights” movement for African Americans. Jim Crow laws were created during this period of time to stop blacks from voting and segregated them from whites. This period didn’t come with much success for blacks, as the only thing passed prior to this movement was the 13th-15th Amendments. This movement ended in 1896, with the Plessy v. Ferguson case, in which “Separate but equal” was ruled constitutional.
During the First World War, the US became the largest supplier of food, manufactures and weapons to Europe. In this context, at the end of the war there was a relationship of dependence, where the US needed the market of Europe to dispose of its great production, and war-torn Europe depended on the American supply.
However, the European economy was devastated while the US was at its peak and created an overproduction that did not find enough consumer market, causing the economic crisis that would become the great depression.
