It's debated; the credit is usually given to either Julia Ward Howe or Anna Jarvis.
Howe was born first, so if you're looking for initial efforts, I would go with her.
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Not really decorated in that sense as making them look "good" i guess, but they were mostly leather bound and covered in tar to help preserve the wood.
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1- The addition of Texas added to the happening to the Mexican-American War
2- The contention began, to a limited extent, over a contradiction about which waterway was Mexico's actual northern fringe: the Nueces or the Rio Grande
Explanation:
The fundamental driver of the war was the affirmation of Texas into the United States of America. Since Mexico didn't perceive Texas' freedom after their effective resistance to the Mexican government it was viewed as an intrusion into Mexican domain once Texas acknowledged the greeting into the United States.