The sinking of the Lusitania caused the United States to enter the war. This was because it was a British ship and the United States is an ally of Britain.
I believe you meant Enlightenment Thinkers.
One belief was that we were born with natural rights (the thoughts of John Locke).
Also, I believe, we exchange certain freedoms for our own protection and safety -- a social contract if you will (thoughts of Thomas Hobbes).
At the recent convention of first continental in Philadelphia voted to establish the organized colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. It was a meeting between the 12 British representatives colonies (except Georgia) to become the United States.
The representatives of all the 12 British colonies met at Carpenter Hall in Philadelphia from 5th September to 26th October 1774. The congress also gave vote to come for the following year’s meeting if their problems were not solved of it they did not get satisfactory solution.
Well, technically the religious unity never ended. I am not religious, but religion has been and will be apart of our society for as long as we can imagine.
Explanation:
En el siglo XVII, las ambiciones de poder absoluto del Rey Carlos I de Inglaterra (1600-1649) provocaron un enfrentamiento entre la monarquía y el Parlamento que terminó en una auténtica guerra civil entre los Roundheads, partidarios del parlamento, y los Cavaliers, nobles que apoyaban la monarquía absoluta.