I think it was free blacks, but I am not 100% sure
<span>An interest group (also called an advocacy group, lobbying group, pressure group, or special interest) is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, that is determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected.
So based off this knowledge, we can eliminate C. :)
I don't think it's A or B because they are more concerned with change and advocacy than a "free time" thing.
So going with this definition, I'd go with D ;) </span>
For Dictatorship, the second answer is incomplete, a dictator may obtain power not only through elections but by a military or institutional coup d'état, a civil war or a military intervention by a foreign power.
In a republic, power is held by those citizens that are able and government is a public matter (res publica in latin) to vote and the power comes from their vote during elections.
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The success of the cotton gin led to increased production of short-staple cotton throughout the South. In Texas, Austin offered land bounties to colonists willing to grow cotton and to blacksmiths and carpenters willing to build cotton gins. As early as 1825 primitive gin manufacturing took place near San Augustine.
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