<span>The Great Depression had started after the stock market crash in October 1929
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What / or who are they: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
Why middle: These were the 4 of the 13 original colonies that were between the northern and southern colonies.
Religion: this is the sentence you really like to write. There were all sorts of religions present, but not one of them could dominate. These 4 colonies had Lutherans, Mennonites, Calvinists (mostly Dutch), and Presbyterians.
Commerce: mostly agriculture at the time, but not restricted to 1 crop as the south was. Had good ports and growing cities (New York, Philadelphia). I like to include the well respected intellectual hotbed of people there like Ben Franklin.
This was Horace Mann. He helped create and design the first educational system in the United States, he was the Massachusetts' Secretary of the Board of Education and he started the "Mann's Six Principles", which were his thoughts of how he would choose decisions. He did a lot for schooling and shaped it how it really is today.
Charles Wesley is known to be one of the principal founders
of Methodism together with his brother John. Charles wrote thousands of hymns
and famously known as the world’s greatest hymn writer. He composed the most
famous hymns of church such as “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” and “Rejoice! The
Lord is King!”.
