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142 Cards in this Set
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to refrain by concerted action from using or purchasing a product |
boycott |
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a reduction in the amount of jobs, money, and goods |
depression |
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an order restricting certain goods and/or ships from entering or leaving the country |
embargo |
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one who comes into country in which one is not native |
immigrant |
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the idea that the US should extend from the atlantic to the pacific |
Manifest Destiny |
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the action of a state setting aside a national law it considers unconstitutional |
nullification |
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to acquire 2 opposite views, principles or tendencies |
polarize |
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to leave an organized group |
secede |
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support for one section without regard for the needs of the other sections of the nation as a whole |
sectionalism |
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the right to vote |
suffrage |
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a tax on products being brought into the country
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tariff |
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Was Daniel Webster an outspoken advocate of states' rights? |
no |
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Many of the settlers of Missouri were ___ from the south |
slave owners |
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Congress passed the ____ Act forbidding American ships to transport goods to foreign ports
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Embargo |
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The doctrine first introduced by Jefferson and Madison in 1798 and reintroduced by Calhoun and Hayne after 1828 was called |
the doctrine of nullification |
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The settlement of a disagreement when each party gives up part of its demand is called a |
compromise |
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The vocabulary word ____ means to support and strengthen something |
buttress |
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the compromise Tariff of 1832 ___ the rates over ten years |
reduced |
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The Tallmadge Amendment stated that slavery be forbidden in the new state of _____ and that the children of slaves would be free when they reached ___ years of age |
Missouri and 25 |
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What correctly describes the Webster-Hayne Debate? |
it was about nullification |
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The 4 factors that caused New England ship owners to start spinning mills were |
power from waterfalls, available cotton, the Embargo, and available labor |
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What were the 3 components of the Missouri Compromise? |
Admit Missouri as a slave state, admit Maine as a free state, and forbid slavery north of 36 degrees 30' in the Louisiana Purchase |
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The Missouri Compromise was introduced by |
Henry Clay |
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_______ accepted Mexico's offer of land in Tx and led settlers into the state to begin a new life |
Steven Austin |
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____ is supreme political power or authority |
sovereignty |
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What was required of people who wanted to settle in Tx before the Mexican Revolution? |
Had to declare they would become loyal Spanish subjects |
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The battle of the Alamo in Tx resulted in a |
massacre |
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Many ppl urged America to fight the Brits to hold the northern boundary of Oregon at |
54 degrees 40' |
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The treaty of 1846 fixed the northern boundary of american oregon at the |
54 degrees 50' parallel |
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California possessed 2 |
a rich fertile central valley and a moderate year round climate |
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When did the mexican war begin |
1846 |
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Who led troops in Cali against Mexico |
John C. Fremont |
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Cali possessed 2 of the 3 natural ports on the pacific coast at - and - |
San Fransisco and San Diego |
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Mexico broke diplomatic relations with the US when - became a - |
Tx became a state |
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Gold was discovered near - Mill in the - valley |
Sutter's Mill in the Sacramento valley |
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Who did not agree with the Mexican war |
the Northeast |
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Slavery could never exist in any territory newly acquired by the US from mexico according to the |
Wilmot Proviso |
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The doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their government bodies was called |
popular sovereignty |
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the 1850 Compromise was proposed by |
Henry Clay, US senator from Kentucky |
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The South's man concession to the North in the 1850 compromise was |
acceptance of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced by |
Stephen Douglas |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in |
1854 |
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4 possible routes for the starting point of the transcontinental railroad were
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Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans |
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Although there were only - registered voters in Kansas, on election day - showed up at the polls to vote on the status pf slavery in the US |
1,000 and 6,000 ballots |
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The bitter confrontations between proslavery and antislavery factions earned the kansas nebraska territory the name |
Bleeding Kansas |
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One group of northerners called the - raised money and financed the trip to nebraska territory for antislavery settlers |
Immigrant Aide Society |
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Representative Brook attacked senator - in the seat chamber after Sumner's speech in favor of the free spin constitution of the state of - |
Sumner and Kansas |
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A building for making and storing arms and military equipment |
arsenal |
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a person who wants to do away with som rule or custom |
abolitionist |
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a fixed form or character; a conventional type |
stereotype |
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DRed Scott |
sued for his freedom but lost |
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effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise |
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney |
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black freedman living in New York, captured and sold in the New Orleans slave market |
Solomon Northrup |
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Many northerners became upset over the adoption of a strict - law |
fugitive slave |
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Some states passed - laws which gave suspected runaways the right to legal counsel and jury trials |
person liberty |
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When Stephen Douglas explained that slavery could be excluded from a territory if the official said not pass laws to protect it, his argument became known as the |
Freeport Doctrine |
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3 characters mentioned in Uncle Tom's Cabin were |
Little Eva, Uncle Tom, and Simon Legree |
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John Brown was an - who attacked proslavery families in Kansas |
abolitionist |
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John Brown attacked the federal arsenal at - in - |
Harper's Ferry in Virginia |
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President Buchanan ordered - and - to Harper's Ferry
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RObert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart |
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John Brown was taken prisoner, tried, and |
hanged |
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What was Stephen Douglas' position in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 |
He won the senate seat and alienated the southerners. His debates probably cost him the 1860 presidential electon |
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What was Abraham Lincoln's position in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 |
He lost the senate seat and he opposed the extension of slavery. He spoke his now famous "A House Divided" speech. He was accused by Douglas of encouraged war |
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The "American system" proposed by Henry Clay was a plan to |
gain prosperity for the nation through a protective tariff |
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The first cotton spinning mill in the US was built by |
Samuel Slater |
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Southern planters objected to the protective tariff of 1816 because it |
increased the cost of manufactured goods |
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo resulted in |
an agreement on the border between the US and Mexico |
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The 3 issues that caused sectionalism to develop were |
economic, political, and geographical |
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dictator of Mexico |
Santa Anna |
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supported the idea of nullification |
Robert Hayne |
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secretary of war- 1853 |
Jefferson Davis |
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John Brown |
attacked federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry |
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Stephen Austin |
led settlers into Tx |
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Roger B. Taney |
Supreme COurt Justice |
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Stephen Douglas |
advocate of popular sovereignty |
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RObert E. LEe |
captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry |
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JOhn C. Calhoun |
vice president of the US |
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The region of the country that most opposed to the annexation of Tx was rhe |
northeast |
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The dispute over the oregon boundary was between the US and |
England |
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The issue that started the mexican war was a dispute over the - between the Us and MExico |
boundary |
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The special condition Mexico stipulated for settlers in her territory was - to the - government |
loyalty and mexican |
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The provision that tried to prevent slavery in the mexican cession was the |
Wilmot Proviso |
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Congress protected the new england textile industry by imposing |
tariffs |
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Squatter sovereignty led to fighting in kansas because the squatters were on both sides of the - question |
slavery |
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The Dred Scott decision repealed the missouri compromise because it stated that congress could not prohibit |
slavery laws |
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the tariff passed in 1828 created angered the south and was referred to as the |
Tariff of Abomination |
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The word antebellum means before teh |
civil war |
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3 types of slave labor that might be found on a well established plantation were |
house, fieldwork, and craftsmen |
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Rice and indigo were the staple crops grown on many carolina plantations. 4 other of the staple crops grown on other southern plantations were |
cotton, hemp, sugar, tobacco |
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The cotton gin was invented by |
Eli Whitney |
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The only state with a law limiting the slave workday was |
Louisiana |
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Slaves were sold in the south by owners in the border states of -, -, -, and - |
Kentucky, maryland, delaware, and virginia |
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Slaves were most frequently punished for not - the way the owner wanted them to |
working |
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the most common form of punishment was |
whipping |
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John quincy adams declared that, regardless of laws to the contrary, every human has the inherent right |
of freedom |
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Most of the blacks deported from the US settled in - Africa |
Liberia |
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Blacks from europe were relocated in |
Sierra Leone |
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A spanish slave ship taken over by the slaves it was transporting |
Amistad |
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led a slave revolt in which over 100 people were killed |
Nat Turner |
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ship owner who transported freedmen to Liberia |
Paul Cuffe |
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his case was heard by the supreme court and defended by john quincy admas |
Joseph Cinque |
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a carpenter in south carolina who planned a slave revolt |
denmark vesey |
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3 ways slave often resisted the authority of their owners was |
acting sick, self mutilation, and escaping |
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the 3 men who led the 3 well known slave revolts were |
Nat Turner, gabriel posser, and denmark vesey |
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Blacks were encouraged to emigrate to what 5 areas |
canada, haiti, mexico, south america, western frontier |
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an item of movable property |
chattel |
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to reduce by destroying or consuming |
deplete |
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during life |
durante vita |
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the act or process of making slaves free |
emancipation |
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to leave a country to live in another place |
emigrate |
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a colonist who contracted to work for another colonist for a certain amount of time |
indentured servent |
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to pretend to be sick or injured in order to escape work or duty |
malinger |
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to release from slavery |
manumit |
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a certain part of a community; a place to live |
quarter |
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Who were the 6 leaders of the abolitionist movement |
William lloyd garrison, harriet beecher stowe, fredrick douglass, sojourner truth, benjamin franklin, benjamin rush |
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the president of the first american antislavery society was |
benjamin franklin |
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the liberator was published by |
william lloyd garrison |
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the north star was published by |
fredrick douglass |
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John greenleaf whittier wrote the poem - and harriet beecher stowe wrote |
the farewell and uncle tom's cabin |
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the system of escape routes and hiding places for runaway slaves was called the |
underground railroad |
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the place where the slaves stopped for the night was called |
the station |
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it was estimated that - slaves escaped by the underground railroad between 1830 and 1860 |
50,000 |
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souther carolina nullification ordinance of 1832 |
william harper |
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considered slavery an improvement over life in africa |
george mcduffie |
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wrote the hireling and the slave |
william grayson |
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said southern owners were virtuous and humane |
thomas r. dew |
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"cannibals all" or "slaves without masters" |
George fitzhugh |
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The radical abolitionist movement began in the (year) |
1830s |
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Louisiana slave owners were able to legally work a slave |
for 21 hours a day |
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planned to lead an army of slaves |
John Brown |
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took black freedmen to Africa |
Paul Cuffe |
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published the North Star |
Frederick Douglass |
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John C. Calhoun |
State's rights supporter, Vice President of the US |
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Stephen Austin |
led settlers to Tx |
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supporter of the theory of nullification |
Robert Hayne |
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Supreme Court Justice |
Roger B. Taney |
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president of antislavery society |
Benjamin Franklin |
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thought slavery an improvement over life in Africa |
George McDuffie |
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In addition to being field-workers and domestic workers, plantation slaves also served as |
craftsmen |
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William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called |
the Liberator |
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The dispute that started the mexican war concerned a |
boundary |
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The most famous "conductor" on the underground railroad was |
Harriet Tubman |
