In the long run, the group that did the most to shape the modern West was the
a. trappers.
b. miners.
c. federal marshals.
d. cowboys.
e. hydraulic engineers.
e
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In 1962, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) issued the
A) Declaration of Sentiments. B) Communist Manifesto. C) Port Huron Statement. D) White Paper.
The First Continental Congress marks the moment when:
A) Americans realized they were no longer British in culture. B) the struggle between local differences and national goals became evident. C) all ties to George III were explicitly rejected. D) Americans realized they had too little in common to become a single nation.
Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Party
A. supported the rights of slave owners. B. promoted "free soil." C. opposed the admission of California into the Union in 1850. D. focused on strengthening the fugitive slave laws. E. campaigned for outright abolition.
The main reason the West did not form into a single regional voting bloc in the early nineteenth century was that __________
A) it was too diverse economically B) western states lacked efficient spokesmen C) too few people lived in the West for a regional identity to take hold D) migrants to the West brought their previous cultural and political attitudes