One of the main impacts that the French religious wars had on French thinkers was that it brought many people to question the teachings of the Church, which led to religious variation.
The correct answer is A) They had differing ideas about a powerful national government.
After the Revolutionary War, states were consistently worried about the power of the national (central) government. Considering that one of the biggest reasons for breaking away from England was a tyrannical central government, helps to understand why there were differing ideas about the structure of the American govenrment when the US became independent.
This is why the United States, under the Articles of Confederation, had a small and weak central government. Some states liked this while other states felt that this central govenrment was too weak to function effectively.
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Social contracts can be explicit, such as laws, or implicit, such as raising one's hand in class to speak. The U.S. Constitution is often cited as an explicit example of part of America's social contract. It sets out what the government can and cannot do.
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The launch of Sputnik a Soviet spacecraft.