Belgium's ports were close to the British coast and German control of Belgium would have been seen as a serious threat to Britain.
The supreme court heard a number of cases involving slavery in the late 1840s and 1850s. With one mnor exception, slaveowners won every one of these cases and the court overwhelmingly supported the power of congress to assist them in recobering fugitive slaves.
Late Mughal leaders' intolerance of non-Muslim citizens weakened the empire.
The fourteen points established the terms for Germany's surrender!
