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  1. This is on those three primary section a project five.
  2. And today we'll be discussing the back to Africa,
  3. where was Liberia founded,
  4. Liberia was found in 1815. Although it was not named Liberia until 1824.
  5. It was founded for the purpose of resettling free slaves from America to Africa.
  6. Where is Liberia located,
  7. Liberia is located on the southwestern coast of Africa.
  8. This country played a vital role in the back to Africa movement.
  9. This movement was debating on the problem of what to do with freed american slaves.
  10. There were a number of possibilities that the group came up with
  11. but the most popular and the one to be carried out
  12. with the transportation of all american freed slaves to Africa.
  13. What government or government has Liberia has since its founding
  14. Liberia has possessed a multiparty republic since its founding
  15. a multiparty republic is a republic that
  16. holds many different parties and factions for voting
  17. the three main parties of the National Patriotic Party,
  18. the All Liberian Party
  19. and the Unity Party.
  20. The government has been based off the american government.
  21. Although Liberia states that they have three equal branches of government.
  22. The ultimate power resides mostly in the president.
  23. What role has the U. S. Played in Liberian history?
  24. The United States has provided much aid to Liberia over the years,
  25. the U. S.
  26. As a whole said numerous naval vessels to Liberia to help the
  27. ruling Americo Liberians suppressed hostilities from
  28. indigenous tribes during the 18 hundreds.
  29. The US has helped Liberia rebuild their lives after the destruction of the Civil war
  30. and
  31. the U. S. Is known to assist Liberia's military.
  32. When Liberia's military calls upon it,
  33. what is the history of Christianity in Liberia?
  34. What about Islam?
  35. The history of Christianity in Liberia dates all
  36. the way back to its direct founding.
  37. The free american slaves brought the gospel to Liberia.
  38. In other words,
  39. Liberia was founded largely on christian principles and ways of life.
  40. Christianity is still a widely practiced religion in the country today.
  41. About 4/5 of populations still hold true to Christianity as their worldview.
  42. History of Islam and Liberia dates back to about the 19th century.
  43. The Islamic religion was spread throughout Liberia by the Vai
  44. vai were a people group that were an indigenous tribe to Liberia and help fast.
  45. The teachings of Islam.
  46. As the Vai people grew in social status, so did their beliefs and opinions
  47. Divide.
  48. People quickly spread the Islamic belief throughout Liberia
  49. because of their social power and economic authority,
  50. they rapidly influence the America Liberians into
  51. believing that Islam is the true religion
  52. today. About 1/10 of the population still practices Islam.
  53. What are the main reasons for Liberia's state of disarray.
  54. Some of the central reasons of disarray in Liberia is caused by tyranny?
  55. The President of Liberia holds the majority of the government authority.
  56. This means that the President can use the
  57. incoming resources for himself in his selfish reasons
  58. when the President does use the resources
  59. being exported and imported from the country.
  60. It can cause poverty because the citizens cannot trade for their
  61. income without the government interfering and raking in the income,
  62. The president also quite frequently lies to his or
  63. her citizens to keep them at bay from writing
  64. frequent upheavals and rights occurred due
  65. to the unfaithfulness of the president.
  66. This often leads to military scrimmages which sometimes lead to civil war.
  67. These civil wars often lead to torn down cities and
  68. homes and they normally cause many injuries in many deaths.
  69. What are some of Liberia's neighbors?
  70. What is the relationship with them?
  71. Some of the neighboring countries of Liberia or Sierra Leone
  72. Bar and Guinea
  73. Liberia has mostly held healthy relationship with Sierra Leone and Guinea
  74. Liberia trades friendly with Sierra Leone and Guinea with the help of a signed pact,
  75. Liberia's has some minor issues with Guinea. However,
  76. in the 19th century,
  77. in 19th century Liberia accused
  78. me of supporting opposition dissidents and Guinea
  79. of responded with the same accusation against Liberia
  80. angered by it's half true accusation
  81. Liberia ready troops for a possible attack.
  82. However, this attack never came in,
  83. Liberia has re established trading routes with Guinea
  84. have the America Liberians gotten along with other
  85. local tribes or other immigrants over the years,
  86. The American Liberians have had troubles with
  87. the indigenous tribes over the years.
  88. But this problem was mostly fixed in 1915,
  89. when the US gave the ruling power a fleet of military, naval crafts,
  90. Immigrants from Central Africa came to Liberia because
  91. of over populated areas in Central Africa.
  92. The America Liberians that the immigrants settled along the coast.
  93. They settled about 2000 small villages and towns.
  94. However,
  95. there has been some racial segregation between
  96. between America Liberians and Central Africans.
  97. What habits good or bad carried over for America into the lives of the Liberians.
  98. The Liberians, like many other cultures, celebrate christmas.
  99. The Americo Liberians also celebrate thanksgiving
  100. some of the bad habits that were carried over by the U. S.
  101. Were smoking cigarettes in large quantities
  102. and drinking large amounts of alcohol.
  103. Also,
  104. the Americo Liberians enslaved a number of people from the indigenous tribes.
  105. Based on your study of Liberia was a colony for free blacks. A good idea.
  106. Based on the study of Liberia,
  107. the African congo free for free blacks was a fine idea.
  108. The only problem was that many of the free slaves
  109. had been born and raised in the US.
  110. This meant that many of the slaves did not want to go to the homeland.
  111. Our ancestors wanted to stay in America.
  112. This proved to be a difficult transition for a large amount of the slaves
  113. but they could not stay in America
  114. without constant mistreatment and scornful opposition.
  115. Also
  116. it was a fine idea because there was no law that
  117. kept slaves from racial mistreatment and certain groups like the KKK.
  118. So this was a good decision because it helped
  119. preserve the life of the African american Freeman.
  120. Thank you so much for watching this have a wonderful day.