From the anti-slavery perspective, the issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism in the United States. ... Previous regional independence movements such as the Greek revolt in the Ottoman Empire, division, and division in the Latin American political map, and the British-French Crimean triumph leading to an interest in redrawing Europe along cultural differences, all conspired to make for a time of upheaval and uncertainty about the basis of the nation-state. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1831, Turner and from 60 to 70 other slaves killed about 60 whites in Virginia. ... In addition, angry whites killed about 100 innocent slaves. ... Brown, with only eighteen men, five of whom were Negroes, attacked and captured the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. ... Lee. ... Although her career was short, it set the stage for the African American women speakers who followed: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, among others. ...

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Los Lobos' "La Bamba" "from the number-one album La Bamba, the soundtrack from the movie about the life of 1950's rocker Richie Valens "also captured a top spot on the charts. ... These devices, which require participating viewers to punch a series of buttons on a remote-control device each time they watch television, were thought to give advertisers more accurate information about the ages and types of viewers watching televisi...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

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• Grade Level: High School