1. Monks were men and nuns were women who cut ties with regular life and dedicated themselves to religion.
2. Monks and nuns did not live in the town or city with the other villagers, instead they lived in their own self-sufficient communities in order to focus all of their attention on their religious studies and activities.
3. Monks and nuns did not visit the regular towns and simply kept to their own community.
4. Monks lived in communities called monasteries. You choose
The battle of Antietam was known as the bloodiest war that happened in America. Here, the <span>Union won the battle which led to the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation </span><span>was given by President Lincoln who declared the freedom of slaves in the South. </span><span>This immediately helped the slaves escape the Confederates and go to the Union based areas.</span>
The nation's founders believed that containing the government's power and protecting liberty was their most important task, and declared a new purpose for government: the protection of individual rights.
