A problem that President Washington did not have to address when he took office was;
A) raising an army
Christianity, but because religion gave slaves a hope to escape and a voice to channel their thoughts, many slave owners did all they could to keep their slaves away from Bibles and churces.
Religious persecution from the Catholic church brought the original Pilgrims to america
During the Berlin Conference, it was "Belgium" who was granted control of the Congo Free State, under the command of King Leopold II from around 1885 to 1908.