James Barbour presided over this city's anti-tariff Free Trade Convention in 1831.
James Barbour presided over this city's anti-tariff Free Trade Convention in 1831. Israel Durham once led this city's Republican political machine, and its Gas Trust once made political payouts. Rumors of Bible-removing Catholics led to 1844 nativist riots in its district of Southwark. Volunteers started this city's so-called "bucket brigade." Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal church and the first American abolition society were founded in this city which bombed the MOVE compound and imprisons Mumia abu-Jamal. It was targeted after an attack on the Conestoga tribe by the Paxton boys, and the battle of Brandywine failed to stop its British occupiers. Nicholas Biddle's Bank of the United States was situated in, for 10 points, what home city of Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention?
James Barbour presided over this city's anti-tariff Free Trade Convention in 1831.
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