The freeing of serfs in Russia was an expression of liberalism because it advocated individuals having personal freedom. As Alexander said to the nobles, "The existing condition of owning souls cannot remain unchanged."
However, what was done in freeing the serfs expressed conservatism because the arrangement ultimately favored the nobles, leaving half of the lands in their hands and requiring payment from the serfs to the nobles for any lands transferred to them.
Note: The Civil War in the USA began in the same year that the emancipation of serfs was proclaimed in Russia. Technically, serfdom in Russia was not the same as slavery in the United States. Landowners did not own the serfs as property, but because they were bound to the land as workers for the landowner who owned the land, their resulting situation was similar. And because they were given legal freedom but had to pay for any land they would acquire from the nobles, the cost of their freedom was high.
Unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. Among the other causes of the eventual market collapse were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a struggling agricultural sector and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated.
Of course he did not, and that was the main reason why the War of Independence happened. At first the colonists were negotiating the possibility of having control of their colonies by means of assemblies, and of being able to trade freely between them and with England, but the British Crown would not allow it, and facts like the Boston Massacre, act that the British empire did in retaliation against the Colonists; led to think that only war would be the solution for both politics and trade, were freely decided by the inhabitants of the 13 Colonies.
From the 1600s to the mid 1800s, Japan isolated itself from
outside influences, and limited both its trade and relations with other nations
under what is called the sakoku policy, which is sometimes also called the “period
of national isolation”.
