Yes, he was a republican and Johnson was famous for turning down most republican-like laws
I think, it's really hard to diminish the violent behavior in the current generation. The only way for African people to prevent violence and civil war is to create a strong law enforcement within the government and impose heavy punishment to the violent groups. Then, they should start to improve the quality of education to develop the young minds of Africa so they became a better generation than their previous one.
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The first Continental Congress alerted the colonial mitias to prepare for war in relation to the "Intolerable Acts" approved by the British Parliament. This Act was the one through which the British prepared to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, although the main plan of the Congress was to petition to the King (George III) to halt the enforcement of the Act.
HinduismThe world's oldest religion still being practiced today is Hinduism (know to adherents as 'Sanatan Dharma', Eternal Order) but, in what is considered 'the west', the first records of religious practice come from Egypt around 4000 BCE.
Throughout the European colonization of North America by the French and British, tenions between French and British settlers in North America (traders, poachers and the like) built up a deep resentment against each other since they often competed for the same land, same "markets" to trade their goods with the Native Americans, etc. However, the animosity between the two parties goes back a long time, even before the colonization of America, to the times of the One Hundred Years' War, and perhaps, even log before.