Quaker beliefs and Christian beliefs clashed. Quakers refused to conform to Christian beliefs and didn't pay taxes to the church. That is why they where arrested and prosecuted as criminals. (This is based off light reading and memory. Sorry if it isn't enough, but if it is can I get Brainliest?
<u>The Stamp Act</u>
[] Taxed things such as paper, playing cards, dice, legal documents, and more
<u>The Sugar Act</u>
[] This act aimed to stop the smuggling of things like sugar and molasses. Britain was in debt from the French and Indian War and needed more money, so they were trying to have the colonists purchase goods from them.
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Answer:
The correct answer is B
Explanation:
Before the Enlightenment, people were very accepting of traditional society, that was based on a religious order that determined the social structure of three estates or castes: the clergy, the nobles, and the commoners, this last category including both the merchants, the artisans, and the peasantry.
During and after the Enlightenment, the ideas of thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, and Hume, led many people to challenge those traditional ideas, and to seek for alternatives. The French Revolution, that caused the dissolution of the Ancient Regime, could be considered the most important manifestation of these ideas in Europe, while the American Revolution would represent the same in the Americas.
<span>Congress was tired of reconstruction and sick of changing the social structure of the South. And, all of the old leaders were dead. There was also a lot of corruption in Grant's administration, and Congress decided stopping corruption was more important. A third reason was because Congress had a new goal to make the US the most powerful, industrial nation in the world and to help big businesses.</span>
