The scientific method <em>revolutionized the study of human society</em> during the Gilded Age and onward; sparking curiosity within the members of society, and encouraged people to <em>gain knowledge</em>, discover and investigate; causing them to question old credence, and starting to prove them wrong, thus <em>leading to technological advances</em>, and large scale production methods, the inception of intellectual movements and favored <em>drastic reforms in education</em>, thus bringing opportunities to other scope of the population, because racial, ethnic, religious, gender and socioeconomic inequalities still abounded, so it also inspired some reformers to address those inequities in some form.
Common Sense
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>D. Skilled military leader. Hope this helps. :D
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