In reference to civil conflict in Sri Lanka, the expression "Tamil Eelam" translates as Tamil A) Homeland. Tamil Eelam is the name that Tamil's use to express what they would like to see as an independent Tamil state within Sri Lanka. There has been a long civil war fight in Sri Lanka over the Tamil community's desire for independence and the establishment of their "homeland."
There are many ways in which conservatism manifested itself in the United States during this time, but a big way was in economics, when conservatives like Reagan thought the government should not regulate business.
