<h2><em><u>The first settlers, it is generally believed, were Tamil and Sinhalese peoples from southern India and Sri Lanka</u></em></h2>
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The strict class system that left most people in poverty.
B. Allied forces began to take the offensive for the first time in the Pacific
Answer: question 1 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."