For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
Vasco da Gama
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What factors motivated Americans to engage in a westward migration in the early nineteenth century? What type of American was more likely to move into the West?
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Which of the following was true of poor inner-city African Americans in the first decade of the twenty-first century?
A. In 2010, only 35 percent of black children lived with both their parents. B. The number of black children living with both their parents had been steadily declining since before the 1970s. C. 60 percent of young, inner-city blacks were unemployed in 2006. D. In 2006, less than half of inner-city blacks completed high school. E. All these answers are correct.
The Paxton Boys and the Regulators both
A. feared violence from western farmers. B. demanded the redistribution of the land making up the former French colonies. C. demanded independence from England. D. sought to increase the authority of local colonial governments. E. demanded tax relief.
During the period from the sixth to eighth centuries C.E., Tibet was
a. a state with no record of agriculture or city-building. b. a state ruled by god-kings who were also Buddhist monks. c. weak, with only a small and ineffective military. d. an expansionist state.