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Description acceptableIn preparation for performing this action, followers of Chief Alfred Sam of the Akim Trading Company moved from Weleetka, Oklahoma, to Galveston. A group trying to perform this action, which would later include Jehudi Ashmun, pointed a gun at King Peter’s head to get him to sell Cape Mesurado. People who had done this action would found a non-American Republican Party and the True Whig (15[1])party. The (*) Quaker merchant Paul Cuffe led early groups of Americans working toward this goal, (10[1])which was also the goal of a society first led by Bushrod Washington and later by James Madison after his presidency. Marcus Garvey created the Black Star line in a later attempt to achieve this goal. For 10 points, name this goal of the American Colonization Society in Liberia. ■END■

ANSWER: former slaves returning to Africa [accept answers indicating enslaved people going back to Africa; accept freed slaves, freedmen, Black people, or African Americans for “slaves”; accept Liberia or West Africa for “Africa”; accept Back to Africa movement; accept repatriation to Africa or American colonization of Africa; prompt on any answer about crossing the Atlantic ocean with “for what reason?”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, American History>
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2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%0%82.50
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