I will use the word Spiritual in the paragraph
Many Slave owner in the past used their spiritual beliefs as a reason to be cruel to the slaves. In Christian religion, for example, it's written in Exodus 21:20-21 that<em> </em><span><em>If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.
</em>The existence of this kind of phrase, of course, will justify the slave owners' action in their own mind, and they can still believe that they're doing the good thing.</span><span>
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Capitalism is the process selling goods & services for profit to buy goods & services. Mercantilism is the process of buying raw materials and transforming them into a manufactured good.
Mercantilism works in Capitalism, as both buy and sell goods. But Mercantilism specifically buys goods to recreate or process them for a product and sell it for profit.
They created tension between each other and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the last straw
Referring to the Spanish-American war, the USS Maine was sunk launching America's involvement in events.