One of the situations that Roosevelt inherited upon taking office was governance of the Philippines, an island nation in Asia. The most spectacular of Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives was the establishment of the Panama Canal.
A confederate system sits at the other extreme in terms of centralization. A confederacy is a loose relationship among a number of smaller political units. The vast majority of political power rests with the local governments; the central federal government has very little power. Local governments have a great deal of freedom to act as they wish, but this freedom often leads to conflicts between states and the federal government. In some cases, a confederacy is little more than an alliance between independent states.
normally a african american would get a harsher punishment because people are racist now :c