Under human use, the natural environment of the West:
A) prospered and grew.
B) was destroyed or significantly degraded.
C) became more diversified.
D) produced abundant new species of plant and animal life.
Answer: B
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Defend the following statement: "Northern society embraced strangely contradictory tendencies. Materialism and greed flourished alongside idealism, religious conviction, and self-sacrifice."
What will be an ideal response?
The mining frontier played a vital role in
a. bringing law and order to the West. b. attracting population to the West. c. influencing the government to switch from the gold to the silver standard. d. enabling westerners to resist the power of large corporations. e. forcing the Indians off the Great Plains.
The English colonists in the Americas introduced their own local form of representative government with
a. Virginia's House of Burgesses. b. the Mayflower Compact. c. the Virginia joint-stock company. d. the revocation of the Virginia charter by King James I. e. the peace treaty following the Second Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644.
Whose strategy to achieve racial equality became known as the Atlanta Compromise?
a) Booker T. Washington b) Jefferson Davis c) W. E. B. Du Bois d) Herbert Spencer