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Which femanist, who was a most formabile intellectual, wrote WOMEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY"?
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Margaret Fuller
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Who was the woman who wrote, A VINDICATOIN IN THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN as a response to Edmund Burke's suggestion that "a women is but an animal"?
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Who was the woman who was convicted by the Puritains of "heresy" and banished from Massachusetts Bay?
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Anne Hutchinson
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What two women organized the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention?
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
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What wife of a futue president warned of a revolt by women if they were not granted equality? She also described the "Boston Coffee Party"!
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Abigail Adams
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What college was the firts to admit female students?
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Troy Female Seminary
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What woman emigrated from Scotland and became a write, abolishonist, fighter for birth control, as well as the founder of the utopian community?
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Frances Wright
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What woman graduated first in her class but was not allowed to be the commencement speaker? she also refused to give up her name after marriage or pay her taxes.
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Lucy Stone
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What's the name of the woman who became a doctor despite the discrimination of the 1820's and 30's?
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Hunt
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What two women are given the most credit for the successful campaign to win the vote for women?
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Stanton and Anthony
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What woman became an advocate for prison and alms house reform in Massachusetts?
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Dorthea Dix
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What is the significance of the book "Society in America"?
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It was advised to be kept away from women because it would lead them to believe they could do things besided cliche wife duties.
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What is the "Laws Resoulution on Women's Rights"?
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The document stated once a woman was married, her husband was her master and she was his property and shadow.
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Define Patriarchy
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A society ran by men.
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Define Sexism
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A belief in the superiority to one's gender, belief is practiced and eventually leads to opression and discrimination.
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Define Feminism
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A belief in social, economic, and political gender equality.
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What famous document was the "Declaration of Sentiments" modeled after?
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Declaration of Independence
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Who was Lucy Hall?
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Protaganist in "Daughters of Free Men." Combination of many people.
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What is a spinster?
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Title of girls working in textile mill; Title of girls who are not married before expected time.
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What does the phrase "Daughters of Free Men" mean?
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Their fathers formed independence during the revolution, therefore they would not stand to be treated as slaves or property.
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Name the intellectual concept that had the most affect on Amerixa during the 1600's and 1700's.
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Enlightenment or Age or Reason
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Name four Europeans who are examplesof the enlightenment. What are their fields of expertise?
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John Locke- political theorist, Isaac Newton- scientist, Adam Smith-economics, Descartes- math philosopher
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What is "Yankee Ingenuity"?
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Self reliance. The idea that one can make do with the materials on hand.
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What was the European intellectual philosophy that began as a revolt against "the cold, bloodless logic" of the enlightenment?
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Romantisism or Transcendentalism
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Name 4 Europeans who are examples of Romantisism
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Colerage, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Goeth- writers
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What is the American version of Romantisism called?
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Transcendentalism
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Who was the formost American transcendentalist?
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Ralph. W. Emmerson
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What do we callthe movement in the US during the 1830's and 40's that emphasized sharing, cooperation, and self-sufficiency?
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Communitarianism
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what do we call living that it ourwardly simple and inwardly rich with an emphasis on community and human scale?
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Voluntary Simplicity
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Who is Niel Postman? Why is he important?
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Writer of "Technopoly" who proposed several questions about the advancement of technology.
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What do Romantisism and Enlightenment have in common?
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They both started in Europe, but had a big impact on US thinking and values, and they were both optomistic
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What Native American critisized technology, "having", communism and capitalism in FIGHTING WORDS ON THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH?
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Russel Means
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What Native American said "Men didnt weave the web of life but is merely a strand in the web"?
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Chief Seattle
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What many earths would it take to accomidate pollution if everyone in the world consumed like the US?
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Who authored the ESSAY ON CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE?
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Henry David Thoreau
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define Civil Disobediance
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purpousful breaking og the law or laws in order to draw attention to injustice, done openly and publically, nonviolently, and one must be willing to suffer consequences
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Who said "History began with an act of disobediance and will end with an act of obedience"?
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Eric Fromm
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What journalist coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny"?
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John O Sullivan
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What does "Manifest Destiny" mean?
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"spread across destiny" from coast to coast
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What treaty ended the US-Mexican War?
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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What were the terms of the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo?
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Rio Grande was now boundry between the US and Mexico. Mexico must recognize Texas' independence
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Who was the American diplomat who was rebuked by Mexico?
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John Slidell
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Who were the two leading US military generals in the Mexican War?
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Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott
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Who was James Miller and how was he "recruited" for the Mexican War?
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Forced to be a volunteer by "ardent spirits". Forced to sign recruitment letter and dragged on a boat
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Who was the editor of the New York tribune who opposed the War with Mexico?
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H. Greeley
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Who wrote the "Biglow Papers"?
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James R. Lowell
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Who was the president of Brown University who opposed the Mexican War?
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Reverand Frances Wayland
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What was President Polk's main goal in the war?
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To aquire land and expand America
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Why the Mexico refuse to sell California to the US?
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It would be POLITICALLY UNPOPULAR and they did not want to give up any more territory to the US
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Who was the Ohio congressman who was the mose eloquent opponent of the War with Mexico?
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Joshua Giddings
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What was "Spots Resolution" and who was it's author?
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A speach by Abraham Lincoln, challenging Polk to specify an exact spot where "american blood was shed on american soil."
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What was Congressman A. Lincoln's position in the War with Mexico?
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Opposed it.
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what did the US aquire through the Adams Onis Treaty?
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Florida
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Who won the Presidential election of 1844?
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Polk
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Who authored the Missouri Compromise?What were its main provisions?
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Henry Clay. Missouri will be a slave state, Maine will not be. Slavery will be prohibited north of 36 30` except Missouri
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Who authored the Compromise of 1850? What were it's main provisons
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Henry Clay. California enters US as non-slave state
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What was unique about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
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people residing in non-slave states had to provide authorities with information about the whereabouts of runaway slaves
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What was the central political issue of the 1850's?
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Whether or not slavery should be legal
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What law passed by several northern states in response to Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 declared slave owners who tried to capture runaway slaves were kidnappers?
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Personal Liberty Laws
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What was popular sovereignty?
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Controversy is decided by people by voting
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Who wrote Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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Stephen Douglas
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Why was the kanses Nebraska Act so controversial?
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Opened up the idea of slavery in states where slavery was banned
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What was the Sumner-Brook incident?
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Sumber(Senate) and Brooks (HOR) Sumner was an abolishanist who blames pro-slavery on Brooks nephew. Brook attacks Sumner with a cane
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What supreme court case declared slaves were property not citizens?
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Dred Scott v Stanford
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Who led the "Raid on Harper's Ferry"? What was the goal of the raid?
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John Brown. To abolish slavery.
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The historiography about John Brown reflects US attituded about what issue?
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Slavery. A hero, but also a failure.
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What was an abolishonist?
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Someone who is for the abolishment of slavery
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The abolishonists has their greatest impact on public opinion when they tied the expansion of slavery to what issue?
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Economic oppurtunity. If they do not stopslavery, plantation owners will take over land.
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Who were the candidates in the presidential election of 1860? Who won?
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Lincoln, Douglas, Breckonridge, and Bell. Lincoln won.
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Name the boarder states.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland
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What is secionalism?
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term used to describe the breakdown of geographic location (also political and cultural)
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Define sucession
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Official withdrawal from Union
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"the history of mankind is a history..."
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Declaration of Sentaments
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"a woman is but an animal..."
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Edmund Burke
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"i would work as much as a man and eat as much.."
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Sojourner Truth
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"we would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down.."
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Margaret Fuller
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"when we talk about equal pay for equal work.."
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Lya Sorano
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"man did not weave the web of life..."
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Cheif Seattle
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"it is always serious to break the law.."
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Robert Bolt
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"under a government which imprisons any person.."
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Henry David Thoreau
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"history begain with an act of disobediance.."
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Eric Fromm
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"blindly following your leaders will get you killed"
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Bruce Springsteen
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"I pledge alliance to the world.."
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Lillian Genser
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"we take nothing by conquest..thank God"
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Whig Intellegencer
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"in the murder of mexicans upon their own soil.."
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Joshua giddings
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"To study foreign affairs.."
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Paul Gagnon
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"our manifest destiny is to.."
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John O Sullivan
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"i tremble for my country.."
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Thomas Jefferson
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"he has made the gallows as.."
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Ralph W. Emmerson
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"i believe that to have interfered.."
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john brown
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"at the center of conflict was slavery"
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A History of the Republic
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"On this subject Slavery I am earnest..."
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Willian Lloyd Garrison
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