Because of the flight of the middle class white families
Answer: B. It was strongly opposed by a group of Southern Democrats.
Answer:
COMMON SENSE was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.
Paine avoided flowery prose. He wrote in the language of the people, often quoting the Bible in his arguments. Most people in America had a working knowledge of the Bible, so his arguments rang true. Paine was not religious, but he knew his readers were. King George was "the Pharaoh of England" and "the Royal Brute of Great Britain." He touched a nerve in the American countryside.
<span> by the time he was born city was prosperous </span>
<span>- Makkah didn't have agriculture- merchants traded instead </span>
<span>- merchants got a lot of money from trading in general but especially from Yemen </span>
<span>- was a religious center </span>
- merchants came to Makkah because it was conventionally located
<span>-was a desert </span>
<span>-was a center of trade/ was a trading city</span>
