Artisans organized medieval crafting guilds for a very good reason - it was mostly because it benefited themselves. They found out that if they stuck together and helped each other out in certain times, it was beneficial for them as they could earn more and have less "stress" with not having jobs or enough equimpent or knowledge.
This passage is about the speech of President Jackson in Congress, where he defended the process of remorse of the Indians.
The use of the word "progessive" refers to the continuation of a process begun earlier, where the Indians were massacred and expelled from their territories to the detriment of the white man's civilization. The former president used that term as a way to slow down an attitude that today would be understood as barbarism, but one that is part of US history.
<span>Many factors can affect how long it takes for an inch of topsoil to form, but it normally takes at least 100 years and often over 500 years. The factors that affect soil formation are parent material, topography, climate, organisms and time.</span>
<span>The selling of weapons to
Iran in the Ira-Contra affair was considered controversial because the senior
administration officials of the Reagan Administration were secretly
facilitating the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo
during that time.</span>
A strong warrior is selected as a leader of the group