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Most of the men were free black men from massachusetts and other parts of the North. Students like the movie because of how it explains and shows and acknowleges the discrimination they faced, as well as their heroic moments.
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A.) Spain
because in 1844 thats when spain controlled present-day California, Nevada, and Utah; and parts of present-day Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
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