The excerpt below is from a historical document. “…. Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous(cruel)acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people…” From Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 What event may have been one of the barbarous acts that influenced the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? A. The Holocaust B. The D-Day Invasion C. The Yalta Conference D. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

by creating a labor shortage that pushed the continent toward a market economy

spanish executed counts egmont and horne in brussels.

the first 10 amendments to the u.s. constitution are known as the bill of rights. those 10 amendments establish the most basic freedoms for americans including the rights to worship how they want, speak how they want, and assembly and peaceably protest their government how they want. the amendments have also been subject to much interpretation since their adoption, particularly the right to carry a gun under the second amendment.

"a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference," said thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states.