Slavery caused a break in the democratic party.
"The Communist Party destroyed churches, synagogues, and mosques, ridiculed, harassed, incarcerated and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with anti-religious teachings, so they introduced their own belief system called "scientific atheism," with its own rituals, promises and proselytizers."
New overseas trade could make a European country richer because they have new resources that other places around them don't have. Therefore they can sell the new resources to others at a higher price
The colonies because they were mad at England
