Why did people move to the Northwest Territory in the 1800s?
A) The federal government required poor immigrants to settle in the West.
B) The federal government gave large incentives to people who moved west.
C) Valuable slave plantations could be established in the Ohio River Valley.
D) People moved to create opportunities with farms on the rich soil.
E) The East had become unpleasantly overcrowded and industrialized.
Answer: D
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A) American communities were becoming diverse societies of competing interests. B) almost all Philadelphians shared common interests. C) appeals to class resentments were a successful political tool. D) American politics were more local than national.
In 1896 ____________________ gained the presidential nomination with his "cross of gold" speech
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
T. H. Huxley claimed to have found __________.
A. scientific proof of female superiority B. scientific proof of female inferiority C. scientific proof of equality between men and women D. biological evidence of original sin
The "well field system"
a. was an animistic belief designed to protect the health of the land. b. allowed peasants plots of their own to work, as well as working the lands of their lords. c. was developed only in the first century, in response to the rise of socialist thought. d. was a water-diversion system which insured that every farm had the amount of water it needed. e. was originally developed by Aryan invaders to improve agricultural productivity in western China.