<h2>Answer: 39 years old
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Malcolm X was famous for being considered by some as a defender of the rights of African-Americans and by others a man full of controversies and encouraging of violence.
However, his life was short, because he was killed just before starting a speech of the many that had made him famous. The declared author of his murderer was Thomas Hagan, who was a radical member of the Nation of Islam, a movement to which Malcolm once belonged and which preached black redemption through conversion to the Muslim religion and the defense of the civil rights of Afro-descendants.
The north and south became more divided over the issue of slavery
The region was occupied by British and French Canadian fur traders from before 1810, and American settlers from the mid-1830s, with its coastal areas north from the Columbia River frequented by ships from all nations engaged in the maritime fur trade, most of these from the 1790s through 1810s being Boston-based.
<span>Convention of 1818 </span>
<span>John Quincy Adams was central in crafting the Convention of 1818. Even though called a "convention," this was actually a treaty. </span>
<span>The Oregon Territory -- essentially the Pacific Northwest from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and extending both north and south from the 49th Parallel -- was rich trapping and trading ground for both the U.S. and Great Britain. It also contained vital Pacific ports. </span>
<span>In a remarkable step, the two nations agreed to hold the territory jointly for at least ten years, then go through a diplomatic process to divide the territory when one country or the other was ready. In essence, the countries were disavowing warfare as a method of deciding who would get Oregon. The Convention also set the U.S.-Canadian border at the 49th Parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rockies.</span>
