How did the National Reclamation Act help settlement in the west?
a. It restricted immigration from Asia and parts of Europe so that there would be more land for easterners moving west.
b. It reclaimed hundreds of acres of land from Native Americans and made it available to white settlers.
c. It restricted cattle to specific areas of land, so that farmers would have more land for cultivation.
d. It gave 160 acres of land to anyone who would pay a registration fee and cultivate the land for five years.
e. It financed irrigation projects, such as dams and canals, which brought water to the area.
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Discuss the reasons, religious and otherwise, which explain the decline of Buddhism in the land of its birth.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following best summarizes Flores-González, Aranda, and Vaquera’s main research question?
A. How do Latino youth’s racial identities map onto U.S. census categories for race? B. Why do some Latinos see themselves as Black and others as White? C. How do understandings of what it means to be Latino vary by location? D. What changes do Latino youth propose for current racial categories?
Why were there essentially no large African markets for excess European industrial goods?
A) Africans resented European intrusion in their lives. B) Most Africans had no use for modern products. C) The Europeans only sent inferior goods to Africa. D) The Africans never had adequate cash incomes to spend on consumer goods. E) The costs of shipping goods to Africa proved to be too high.
Under the Constitution, if no candidate wins a majority in the electoral college, __________ determines the president
A) the House of Representatives B) the Senate C) the Supreme Court D) a popular vote