<span>This change happened gradually. Quakers were some of the first people in the Americas to own slaves. However, objections were brought up by Dutch Quakers in the 18th century that changed the Christian sect's outlook on owning slaves.
From these objections, Quakers gradually stopped owning slaves and became some of the most vocal abolitionists. The Quaker biblical justification was in the verse Matthew 7:12 which stated that Christians had a responsibility to adhere to a higher standard of living morally. The Quakers did not believe owning slaves was a part of living up to these standards.</span>
<span>This is of course somewhat of a subjective question, but in general most would agree that in general expansion was not justifiable since the Mexicans and Natives were doing nothing to provoke the US. One could argue it was justifiable since Americans needed more land. </span>
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Some ideas:
-beads were a thing they did because of religion
-beads signified power or importance or wisdom
-beads of a certain colour/shape/size might mean certain things, e. g. 'I have children' or I am a woman/man'(there might be different beads from different genders/types of people)
-they cared about how they looked
-they had festivals where they got dressed up
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