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• Directory:Henry David Thoreau
  ...individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. ...as a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the aboli
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  ...Buffalo]] (UB, University at Buffalo), the largest school in the New York state university system. ...g of Millard Fillmore]]In [[1828]], Fillmore was elected to the [[New York State Assembly]] on the [[Anti-Masonic Party|Anti-Masonic]] ticket, serving for o
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• Directory:Blogging Ninja Free Download
  On one hand, you can maintain all of your blogs manually.... where you slave away writing content for hours each week... ...importantly, you're going to save countless hours of time by not having to slave away writing blog content... and spend that time on what's going to bring y
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...ssion of [[Directory:Maine|Maine]] as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in the following year. Jefferson City is the capital and St. Louis the larg ...ces, supplying both Union and Confederate forces with troops. However, the state itself remained in the Union.
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• Directory:Ralph Waldo Emerson
  ...for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action." [http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/14.htm Self-Reliance (1841)]
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• Directory:James Monroe
  | order2=7th [[United States Secretary of State]] ...[[Missouri Compromise]] (1820), in which [[Missouri]] was declared a slave state; and the profession of the [[Monroe Doctrine]] (1823), declaring U.S. oppos
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• Directory:Kansas
  ...free and slave factions (1854-1859). Kansas was finally admitted as a free state. Topeka is the capital and Wichita the largest city. Population: [[Populati ...s, and triumphs have helped mold Kansas into the vibrant, prosperous, rich State we know today.
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  | order2 = 17th [[United States Secretary of State]] ...h U.S. President of the United States, often served as Acting Secretary of State during the [[Theodore Roosevelt]] administration.
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 15th state in [[Year Admitted:=1792|1792]]. Daniel Boone's Transylvania Company made t ...f Kentucky (its official designation) was admitted to the Union, the first state West of the Appalachians. Isaac Shelby was elected the first governor, and
  18 KB (2,900 words) - 19:16, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Delaware
  [[Category:Society/Ethnicity/The_Americas]]'''Delaware''' is a state of the eastern [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|Unit ...e the first state to ratify the new Constitution of the United States. The state constitution of 1776 was superseded by a new constitution in 1792, which pr
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• Employment
  ...te to state with California having the most incorporated businesses of any state in the U.S. ...n for the purpose of fulfilling a debt without pay is known as a [[slavery|slave]] and slaveowners are also not considered employers. Some historians sugges
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...f America|United States]] bordering on Canada. It was admitted as the 14th state in [[Year Admitted:=1791]]. Explored by Samuel de Champlain in 1609, the re ...he Continental Congress refused to recognize Vermont as the 14th colony or state. The convention that met at Windsor in July reaffirmed Vermont's independen
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• Directory:Virginia
  [[Category:Society/Ethnicity/The_Americas]]'''Virginia''' is a state of the eastern [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|Unit ...ury. Small, independent cultivators, unable to compete with the plantation-slave system, formed the nucleus of a poor white class that drifted southward or
  27 KB (4,074 words) - 19:31, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Maine
  ...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 23rd state in [[Year Admitted:=1820|1820]]. First explored by Europeans in 1602, the r ...ed until 1820 when Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a separate state.
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  | Home State=New York | order3=10th [[United States Secretary of State]]
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...ngress. Late in life, as a Congressman, he was a leading opponent of the [[Slave Power]], arguing that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abo ==Secretary of State==
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• Directory:Article Heaven/Ancient Roman society
  ...ium]]'') was likely absolute. He was also the head of the [[Roman religion|state religion]]. In addition to the authority of the King, there were three admi ...rt from the Senate. The Emperor appointed assistants and advisers, but the state lacked many institutions, such as a centrally planned [[budget]]. Some hist
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 22nd state in [[Year Admitted:=1819|1819]]. Alabama was first explored by the Spanish, ...t up in 1817 with William W. Bibb as governor; two years later it became a state, and, in 1835, the last native lands were ceded.
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...organized in 1798 and enlarged in 1804 and 1813, also included the present state of [[Directory:Alabama|Alabama]]. Jackson is the capital and the largest ci ...estern part achieved statehood as Mississippi (the eastern part became the state of Alabama in 1819). Natchez, the first territorial capital, was replaced i
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...erritory of the United States South of the River Ohio (1790) and the later state of Tennessee. Nashville is the capital and Memphis the largest city. Popula ...he Union as a slave state, with its capital at Knoxville. It was the first state to be carved out of national territory.
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