Assess the concept of manifest destiny. Do you agree with the basic proposition? Why or why not? The text authors claim that it is "one of the most influential slogans ever coined"
Do you agree? Why or why not? What was the role of manifest destiny in American territorial expansion in the mid-nineteenth century?
The basic proposition is, Americans (a chosen people) had a special (divinely ordained) mission to spread across the North American continent. This concept was influential in at least justifying America's conquest of Native Americans and of Mexico to acquire new territory.
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a. the highest category of government bureaucrats in the Heian era. b. powerful regional warlords who ruled much of the Japanese countryside. c. guilds of craftsmen who dominated urban life in medieval Japan. d. Japanese Buddhist monks who helped convert Korea.
For the larger part of its early period as an independent nation, Indonesia was ruled by
A) Boutros Boutros-Ghali. B) Achmed Sukarno. C) T. P. P. Ramakrishna. D) T. N. J. Suharto. E) Mohammed Hatta.
Which statement accurately describes why that state refused to join the Confederacy?
A) Delaware was mainly a nonslaveholding state that had no desire to be part of a slave Confederacy. B) Missouri's citizens were united in their loyalty to the Union and in their belief that an independent slave confederacy could not survive. C) Virginia's nonslaveholding eastern part of the state refused to secede with the western part¾which named itself West Virginia when it joined the Confederacy. D) Maryland's popular politician, Hannibal Hamlin, had just been elected vice president. E) Kentucky had a Unionist legislature whose resolve was strengthened by the presence of Grant's troops across the river in Illinois.
Apocalypticism is best described as...
What will be an ideal response?