The majority of immigrants that came to the US between 1820 and 1870 came from England and Northern Europe.
<span>Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet titled "Common Sense" on January 9 1776. The pamphlet went on to say that independence from England was encouraged. He wrote that Europe and not England was the parent country of America and that all those who have fled there were lovers of civil and religious liberty.</span>
As the Greeks studied science, they started to realize that they didn't need the gods to explain the natural occurrences like disease, famine, weather, and etc. They started to look less highly of the gods and have proven these anomalies in an another way that can be explained. If they figured famine was due to drought or weather change, why need gods to explain to people that it is their gods own will and power.