I am almost 100% sure that it is activist leader.
“Religiously, the Ottomans were very tolerant. The Ottomans were Sunni Muslims- followers of Islam. Taking the Qur’an to heart, Christians and Jews were considered people of the book and were highly respected, or at least tolerated.”
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the term fifty-four forty was related with the American expansion in the area west that included Texas,California and the entire region of Oregon. It's president Polk, the renowned architect of manifest destiny and American expansion, who coined the slogan. It simply referred to the latitudes of the northern border of Oregon, which was 54-degrees forty minutes.