<span>The alliances formed as the Ottoman Empire started to weaken is B, Britain and smaller countries within the Ottoman empire. Britain and Ottoman formed an alliance and fought together with France and Kingdom of Sardine against the Russians in the 1853 War of Crimea.</span>
During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first two proposed amendments, which concerned the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, and other states with big cash crop plantations had the largest slave population in 1860.
A: Businesses are able to participate in free trade.
