"They joined the war effort on the side of the allies because they thought it would bring them independence after the war." What nation or people does this sentence describe?

In which country did miguel hidalgo led the revolution against spain?

Plz how did the jews of the diaspora preserve their heritage?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is