Between 1842 and 1845 in Oregon,
A) most Americans located north of the Columbia River.
B) the number of American settlers gradually declined.
C) the British expanded their interests in the fur trade.
D) American settlers wrote a constitution and elected a legislature.
Answer: D
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A) John Dickinson. B) Thomas Hutchinson. C) William Franklin. D) Thomas Paine.
The president who formally recommended the annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States was
a. Andrew Jackson. b. Martin Van Buren. c. William Henry Harrison. d. John Tyler. e. James K. Polk.
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A) Frederick II began it. B) Prussia was helped by the English. C) Austria allied with France. D) Prussia was defeated and partitioned. E) it showed how fragile a nation was without a powerful military.
Which of the following statements is not true?
A) The Great War eventually strained the whole fabric of life in Europe. B) The entry of the Ottoman Empire and the colonial empires of the belligerents helped to make the war into a world war. C) World War I made the world safe for democracy. D) The Great War undermined European hegemony in the world. E) Many thought a major war was impossible in rational and civilized Europe.