Hard-line defenders of slavery who convened a Southern rights convention in Nashville "to devise and adopt some mode of resistance to Northern aggression" were known as __________
A) Young Americans
B) "conductors"
C) Confederates
D) "fire-eaters"
D
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A) Henry David Thoreau B) Ralph Waldo Emerson C) John Slidell D) Thomas Larkin
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