What do you think were the biggest challenges facing newly independent countries? Would it have been possible for leaders to prevent these problems before they happened? Why or why not?

The biggest challenge facing newly independent countries is the challenge of political stability and keeping the country united, this is because newly independent countries often became independent as a result of bloody wars that resulted in an unstable enviroment and political feuds among conflicting factions.

For leaders to prevent his from happening, they would have had to be assertive in their goals and in the form of government that they feel would have been convenient for the newly independent country.

the dominoes began to fall. the surrender at appomattox took place a week later on april 9. while it was the most significant surrender to take place during the civil war, gen. robert e. lee, the confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered only his army of northern virginia to union gen. ulysses s. grant

explanation:

no one really purchased it themselves, it was all america, they had debates etc.