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United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger."
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The correct answer is D) It served as a transportation route allowing French explorers access to the area.
The Mississippi River was important in the early history of Louisiana because it served as a transportation route allowing French explorers access to the area.
The Mississippi River has always been a strategic place in the history of the United States. For the Native Americans, for the French explorers, in the different wars in the colonial times, in the Revolutionary War or in the Civil War, the Mississippi has been an important river for transportation purposes.
For the French explorers, the Mississippi connected the port of New Orleans with the northwest part of the territory. It represented a good way to transport people and trade goods such as the fur trade.
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Preserve the Union. Uniting the North and South, who has opposing views about the war, during the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln's purpose in his Gettysburg and Second Inaugural speech.