B. The Act of Toleration
1649 the Maryland Governor passed the act.
Stated that all believers in Jesus should tolerate each other. Protestantism was gaining the upper hand, in a colony founded by Catholics fleeing persecution in England and parts of Europe.
WASP: White, Anglo Saxon, Protestant was prevailing prejudice in most of the colonies. Catholics were kept out of political office, upward mobility was limited.
The Fourteen Points constituted the proposal exposed by US President Woodrow Wilson, in an speech delivered in 1918, while the peace terms after WWI were negotiated.
In this proposal, Wilson included several domestic progressive principle,s, which he translated into foreign policy (for example: free trade, open agreements, democracy or self-determination). His viewpoints were considered too optimistic and inapplicable in Europe, where the atmosphere was not peaceful at all yet.
In Athenas, 1. The government is a direct democracy, 4. The assembly is the main body of government and 5. Debate is an important part of government.
´´The M.A.I.N. causes of world war 1 were Militarism, secret Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism .The driving force was Nationalism ... The igniting incident of the ´´Great WAR´´ was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungerian Empire, in Bosnia by a serbian nationalist.
