Word: 1860s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gulf.* Florida was also entitled to three leagues because it claimed that boundary in its post-Civil War constitution, rammed through by a carpetbagger and scalawag-packed state constitutional convention and approved by Congress in 1868. Because Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama made considerably less extravagant claims back in the 1860s, they got considerably less from the Supreme Court...
...globe. Handsome, intelligent Polynesians who settled in New Zealand long before Dutch Navigator Abel Tasman discovered the islands in 1642, the Maoris seemed well on the way to extinction in the late 19th century. Exploitation, Western diseases, above all a disastrous series of frontier wars in the 1860s, had reduced their population...