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Option D: Queen Nzinga
Queen Anna Nzinga also known as Queen Njinga Mbande was a 17th century queen of Central Africa. She led the resistance campaign and fight against Portuguese and against slave trading for several years.
The <u>most important factor</u> in gathering support for the ratification of the constitution was the inclusion of the Bill of Rights.
Many anti-federalists were wary of the power the would be given to the federal government, they feared that they would abuse this power and in the end, it would result in a government just like the British, supporting only the aristocrats and leaving the people without a say in the matter.
With that in mind, James Madison assured the anti-federalists that the Bill of Rights would be placed to safeguard the rights and freedom of the people in order to prevent a despotic government.
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Lebanese Civil War, civil conflict (1975–90) in Lebanon emanating from the deterioration of the Lebanese state and the coalescence of militias that provided security where the state could not. These militias formed largely along communal lines: the Lebanese Front (LF), led by the Phalangists (or Phalange), represented Maronite Christian clans whose leaders had dominated the traditional elite class of the country’s sociopolitical fabric; the Lebanese National Movement (LNM), a coalition of secular leftists and Sunni Muslims sympathetic to Arab nationalism; the Amal (“Hope,” also an acronym for Afwāj al-Muqāwamah al-Lubnāniyyah [Lebanese Resistance Detachments]) movement, comprising Shiʿi populists; and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which represented Lebanon’s large Palestinian refugee population. Other participants in the war included Syria, Israel, and splintered contingents of the Lebanese Army.
The statement that explains why Roosevelt offered U.S. naval support to Panamanian rebels fighting for independence from Colombia is <em>The Colombian government would not allow the United States to have control over the Panama Canal Zone</em>. The United States helped Panama declare independence from Colombia, then negotiated for the canal. On November 3, 1903, Panama with United States Navy support revolted against Colombia and became a new republic. The U.S. gained the rights in perpetuity to the canal strip.
