In the nineteenth century, the United States acquired most of what is now the Southwest from which country?

A. Spain
B. Mexico
C. Britain
D. Canada


Answer: B. Mexico

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The Ottoman Emperor

A) lived in splendor. B) built a wall around Jerusalem. C) conquered Hungary by slaughtering thousands. D) received petitions from his subjects. E) all of the above.

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Beginning about 7000 years ago, peoples began migrating into the Nile valley, some of them because what other large region began to dry up?

a. the Sahara b. the Levant c. the Mediterranean coastal plain d. Crete e. Mesopotamia

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According to the introductory video in section 11.3, the election of 1824 was the first one in which __________

A) the people chose the electors B) state legislatures chose the electors C) the popular vote decided the presidency D) the secretary of state became president

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Peter I (Peter the Great) began his reign in the ________ century

A) nineteenth B) fifteenth C) seventeenth D) thirteenth

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