Confucianism was the belief system that the civil service exams were based on
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Between 1895 and 1898 Cuba and the Philippine Islands revolted against Spain. The Cubans gained independence, but the Filipinos did not. In both instances the intervention of the United States was the culminating event.
Rhode Island chose not to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Rhode Island was distrustful of the creation of a strong federal government at the Constitutional Convention that could potentially attempt to control Rhode Island which was a small state. As a result of this Rhode Island initially boycotted the Convention as a political statement against the creation of a strong federal government.
