The printing press played a very important role in the spread of Enlightenment ideas. pamphlets, papers, and other forms of writing could be made cheaply and efficiently because of the printing press, which made them very accessible to all social classes, not just the wealthy upper class.
<span>They believed that only their elected
officials and not the British parliament had the right to raise taxes. The
colonists were opposed to taxation without representation and perceived it as
tyranny. As a result, they begun to agitate for independence and their rights. </span>
Wovoka and his ghost dance became so popular among Indian tribes in the Southwest because they believed that the ceremony would reunite the spirits of the dead with those of the living, and the power of these spirits could be harnessed in battle with white settlers and the US Army
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