All of them were famous during this part of the century, except for A. Mark Twain. He was famous during the LATE part of the 19th Century.
Towns often developed near oases because it was easy access to water and they could farm there.
Strom Thurmond did not challenge the status quo.
Thurgood Marshall argued cases like <em>Brown v. The Board of Education </em>before the US Supreme Court, and later (in 1967) became a Supreme Court justice -- the first African-American justice to serve on the court.
As president, Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which abolished racial segregation in the US military.
Jackie Robinson was the first black player to play in Major League Baseball.
Strom Thurmond was a US Senator from South Carolina who sought to protect the status quo against the civil rights movement.
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Many were Irish immigrants who had come to the United States to escape economic hardship, but found themselves fighting in the Mexican-American War against their adopted country. The American Protestant majority resented the Irish for being of lower socioeconomic status, and also for being Catholic. So they revolted
I believe the answer is: A-he disagreed with slavery but supported compromise
Daniel Webster was known as the leading supporter for Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that required federal officials to capture and punish slaves that were running away. Because of this Webster was viciously attacked by the abolitionist because he agreed to the compromise rather than fully eliminated slavery.
