Borders were drawn without regard for local populations
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They were both divided up based on the Mandate System of the League of Nations. Other European countries assumed responsibility of the former territories.
After gaining independence, territory in both former colonies was divided due to religious conflicts.
In geography, a country is a geographical region. The term is often applied to a political division or the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. Usually, but not always, a country coincides with a sovereign territory and is associated with a state, nation and government.
principally in admitting Missouri, a slave state, and Maine, a free state, into the Union at the same time, and in regulating slavery in the former Louisiana Territory
After the Civil War, Republicans had the ultimate power, but Lincoln urged for the South to rejoin the Union as states and not dominated territory, as well as the majority of people. Eventually the former Democrats of the South were allowed to make a new beginning in politics.