Although many of the Founding Fathers acknowledged that slavery violated the core American Revolutionary ideal of liberty, their simultaneous commitment to private property rights, principles of limited government, and intersectional harmony prevented them from making a bold move against slavery. The considerable investment of Southern Founders in slave-based staple agriculture, combined with their deep-seated racial prejudice, posed additional obstacles to emancipation.
The main cause of the civil war and strife in Sri Lanka is their ethnic composition: Tamils in the north of the Island, who want independence and Sinhala in the South who want the country to remain united.
There is also a religious difference: the Tamils are predominantly Hindu and the Sinhalese are Buddhist.
Women played many
important roles once
they arrived at
Jamestown. Women
did chores and were
responsible for
educating the children
Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany. In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France.
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