The correct answer is: "a rise in support for representative government."
The Enlightment philosophers, such as Locke, Monstequieu or Rosseau, developed ideas that challenged, and ended up derrocating, the power structures of the Old Regime.
They promoted democratic principles, such as the definitions of bills of citizens' rights, <u>social contract (citizens electing political representatives to create goverment through suffrage, in opposition to the prevailing absolute monarchies</u>), and the division of the powers of the state in order to avoid excessive power accumulation in certain sectors, and risks of authoritarism.
All these ideas challenged the status quo, and gave rise to many revolutions in Europe, being the French Revolution the most remarkable one, and also has an effect overseas, as it influenced and triggered the American Revolution too.
They were often called, A, Carpetbaggers. They would take pieces of carpet and pack up and move North, keeping all of their belongings in the carpet bags.
I'm thinking this may be owner ship but it depends on what you are learning.
I’m very sure it has to be A.
Explanation:
B is a common event that happened to most slave families during the slave era
And C the slave owners wouldn’t do. Why? Because they preferred more cruel and unusual punishments in that time.
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George Washington was the first president
