It is because they thought that following what others did was like losing their identities.
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Paintings: Mona Lisa
Sculptures: Cristo della Minerva
Works of literature: Pastoral poems
Inventions and Discoveries: The Submarine
Chinese and Irish Immigrants, and African Americans
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The Mexican-American War, waged between the United States and Mexico from ... largely because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state. ... Congress declared war, despite opposition from some northern lawmakers.
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