Many people in United tates and Europe protested against the Rosenbergs trial because they thought that the Rosenbergs were unfairly charged merely for being jews. Sartre called the trial a "legal lynching" that "smears with blood a whole nation".
Liberal issues focuses on the individual rights and equality of the people while conservatism focuses on socially entrenched and old values and virtues especially family and religious values.
For example, if an issue about abortion was to be prompted a liberal would focus on the rights of the mother vis a vis the child while the conservative would allude to socially held notions especially those held by the dominant religion.
That's because the island was invaded by pretty much everyone even though it was originally a French colony. British and Spanish armies also intervened and every time that the people would win and take control of the island, the French would just send numerous new soldiers to retake it. Just during Napoleon's era, 50 000+ soldiers died from yellow fever only.
One major effect of the protestant reformation was that it declined in religious unity.