Mining and manufacturing are Israel's most important industries. They make the country lots of money.
The main features of the Alliance System which existed in Europe in 1914 were born from fear that came about from militarization in the area. There were too many connections.
To gain the southerners' support, Douglas proposed creating two territories in the area–Kansas and Nebraska and repealing the Missouri Compromise line. The question of whether the territories would be slave or free would be left to the settlers under Douglas's principle of popular sovereignty