They where big trading cities that many people wanted to control and because of it geographic location it was used as a cultural hearth
Stutthof concentration camp
It was also the last camp liberated by the Allies on 9 May 1945. It is estimated that between 63,000 and 65,000 prisoners of Stutthof concentration camp and its subcamps died as a result of murder, starvation, epidemics, extreme labour conditions, brutal and forced evacuations, and a lack of medical attention.
(2) devolved advanced architectural techniques
The Founders made the amendment process difficult because they wanted to lock in the political deals that made ratification of the Constitution possible. Moreover, they recognized that, for a government to function well, the ground rules should be stable.
After World War l the United States stuck with a strict policy of isolationism. The American people didn’t want to be involved in European affairs. Accepting the refugees would’ve been a way for the U.S. to get dragged into the war. We see in the later years after the Imperial Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor where isolationism in the States becomes a distant memory and where the U.S. begins taking position on the world stage.