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el_bryanto

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3. That's a tough one - it's a good choice but I don't know if it was possible at the time

Reply to 1monster (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 04:07 PM

Nov 2014

Another point might have been the Presidency of Andrew Jackson and all that it implied - his hatred of Native Americans was well known and he was one of the first Presidential Candidates to be on the side of the people against the intellegensia.

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