John Jacob Astor was:

a. a British journalist who wrote about the fertility of the Willamette Valley
b. an American official who negotiated with Indians to open the Oregon territory
c. the operator of the first hotel west of the Mississippi
d. an American fur merchant who established a trading post in Oregon


D

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a. Visigoths. b. Ostrogoths. c. Huns. d. Franks. e. Allamani.

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