For independence because Britain was taxing the colonists too much, was passing too many acts oppressing the colonists, and even killed some colonists (Boston Massacre).
It would be the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union in which Reagan fought any progressive movements like the Sandinistas in NIcaragua by funding the contras and also he bombed Kaddafi in Libya by trying to make him out to be a tyrant when in fact it turns out that he transformed Libya into one of the most modern and progressive countries in Africa under him.
Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515, was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
The Iroquois had past ties to both the English and the French, and the French had agreed to act as the authority between signatory tribes.
Kenneth Clark said "to the negro imagination it is a world of fear and darkness" . Apollo image said it held "a world of light and confidence".