The _______ Purchase, acquisition of part of southwest New Mexico and southern Arizona, was signed by President Franklin Pierce in 1853; this purchase was to allow the U.S. to construct a transcontinental railroad.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: Gadsden
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Between 5,000 and 11,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war died when their Japanese captors forced them to walk through the jungle in what came to be known as the __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Around 1200, the power of the Japanese emperor was ________
A) weakened B) symbolic C) growing D) supreme
How did Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph respond to the revolutions of 1848?
A) He established a legislature with an elective lower house. B) He limited the Catholic Church's control of education. C) He curbed the political power of the landed aristocracy. D) He integrated non-Germans into the imperial administration. E) He mandated better treatment for national minorities.
Seventeenth-century English Puritans ________
A) were only a tiny minority of all Englishmen B) were committed to significant institutional change C) were firmly supportive of the status quo D) accepted the tenets of Catholicism with reservations E) were neurotic and self-righteous