1.common sense influenced the declaration of independence by
using a similar type of easily understood language.
persuading the continental congress to meet.
preparing people for the new ideas in the declaration.
suggesting who should write the declaration.

2. which of these is a simple sentence?
immigrants who came to work in factories lived in urban neighborhoods.
“old” immigrants often settled on farms, but most “new” ones lived in cities.
in the past, many immigrants had come from northern and western europe.
immigrants worked long hours and faced crowded living conditions.

1. Preparing people for the new ideas in the Declaration.

Common Sense by Thomas Paine was a pamphlet written to support and popularize the idea of independence in the Thirteenth Colonies. It was extremely popular at the time, and helped popularize many of the ideas of independence that were later included in the Declaration. It was written in clear and persuasive prose, and therefore, was accessible to a large number of people.

2. In the past, many immigrants had come from northern and western Europe.

A simple sentence is one which only contains one clause, and expresses a complete thought. It is an independent clause and contains a subject and a verb. It also does not include any subordinate clauses.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.