To stop Germany from taking over the world and to keep them from destroying our shipping
More important in terms of Japan's relationship with the outside world, he ordered the country closed to Europeans. Christianity was outlawed and the missionaries were expelled. ... Closing the ports against “contamination” by Western ideas is often presented as evidence of Japanese backwardness.
The imperial ministers had much the same reasons as their counterparts in Japan for restricting foreign trade: religion and technology would disrupt the society and ultimately the government. ... Japan felt that it was the country of the gods and was therefore superior to Europe as well.
In September 1786, at the Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787<span>.
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By one estimate, 100,000 slaves escaped from bondage in the South between 1810 and 1850. The southern newspapers almost every day were filled with announcements about new shoots of slaves, for catching of which the big reward was offered. There was even a special detachment of professional hunters for the fugitives who caught them and returned them back to the owner. But if the slave managed to reach the Canadian border, the persecution ceased. That's a rough estimate, but I hope it helps!!!
