The Mississippi River System, also known as Western Rivers, was important to trade and transportation in the west. It played a very important role in the lives of those people who inhabited the surrounding area. It was for transportation and also for trade.<span> </span>
The correct answer is: [B]: "<span>right against cruel or unusual punishment" .
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Note that the "right against cruel or unusual punishment" is protected by the "8th {Eighth} Amendment of the U.S. Consitution" — NOT the "Fifth {5th} Amendment".
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<span>York was Clark’s childhood companion. He was a slave. We know he was big. We know he was very athletic. He was a great dancer. He was devoted to William Clark. He was a great help to the expedition because he was such a curiosity. Indians who had seen white men had never seen a black man before and there’s the famous – is it Catlin or Charley Russell – and there’s the famous Charley Russell painting in the Mandan lodges of the Mandan chief trying to rub the black off of York’s skin. York had a great time on the expedition. He had, had his own rifle. He got to vote. He was a full member of the expedition. He had a, the Indians loved him, and the Indian women especially loved York and he took full advantage of that so that on many occasions York would be missing that night and he would be in the lodge with one of the Indians. Sometimes with the Indian husband standing guard while the business was completed.
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<span>Although most of the settlers were Protestants, Maryland soon became one of the few regions in the British Empire where Catholics held the highest positions of political authority. Maryland was also one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of British convicts. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was one of the first laws that explicitly dictated religious tolerance, though toleration was limited to Trinitarian Christians. </span><span>
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During the late 1800s in Poland and Russia, anti-Semitism took the form of violent attacks called Pogrom.
These attacks forced many Jews to flee to western Europe. Nonetheless, some Jews continued to survive in eastern Europe in small villages called Shtetlekh.
Pogrom is a Russian word which means to wreak havoc or to demolish violently. Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries.
Shtetlekh were small towns with large Jewish populations, which existed in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.
