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  2. Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The party grew out of opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to slavery and future admission as slave states. [41] [42] They denounced the expansion of slavery as a great evil, but did not call for complete abolition, including in the Southern states.

  3. Gerrymandering - Wikipedia

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    [162] [163] They have argued that the electoral boundaries for the Parliament of Northern Ireland were not gerrymandered to a greater level than that produced by any single-winner election system, and that the actual number of Nationalist MPs barely changed under the revised system (it went from 12 to 11 and later went back up to 12).

  4. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Similar statutes were adopted in other colonies in the 1640s and 1650s. [14] In the 18th century, "common schools" were established; students of all ages were under the control of one teacher in one room. Although they were publicly supplied at the local (town) level, they were not free. Students' families were charged tuition or "rate bills."

  5. The Miracle (1912 film) - Wikipedia

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    This is a tinted B&W print, not the original coloured film. The four short selections are as follows, cue numbers taken from the vocal score (see Musical scores): Entracte (Part II), cue 1: Leicht bewegt (pdf p. 47) Entracte, cue 11: Fackeltanz der Nonne (pdf p. 65) Act II, scene 1, cue 1 6/8 (pdf p. 80) Act II, final scene, cue 39 (pdf p. 104)