"Have not results in Mexico taught the invincibility of American arms?...The North Americans will spread out far beyond their present bounds. They will encroach again and again upon their neighbors. New territories will be planted, declare their independence, and be annexed. We have New Mexico and California! We will have Old Mexico and Cuba! The isthmus cannot arrest -- nor even the Saint Lawrence!! Time has all of this in her womb. A hundred states will grow up where now exists but thirty." - Commercial Review, 1848 Which of these events is most directly related to the passage?
a) the United States promoted an Open-door policy in China to gain influence in the world markets
b) the Oregon Treaty of 1846 established most of Oregon to be under the control of the US government
c) Thomas Jefferson orchestrated the Louisiana Purchase, dramatically increasing the size of the United States
d) the Spanish-American War occurred as the US sought to remove European influence in the western hemisphere
b) the Oregon Treaty of 1846 established most of Oregon to be under the control of the US government
In this treaty the US government took British lands in Oregon, further establishing American control over the west coast.
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Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it
a. failed to provide enough German financial reparations to the United States. b. violated Wilson's own Fourteen Points. c. robbed Congress of its constitutional war-declaring powers by entangling America in an international organization capable of authorizing collective force against an aggressor nation. d. isolated the United States from postwar world affairs. e. made collective international security and alliances of peaceful democratic states more difficult to construct and sustain.
The largest building in any Sumerian city was the ziggurat, which was used as a
a. palace for the king b. temple c. law court d. market place e. granary
Describe the respective role of priests and peasants in Inca society.
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Delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 agreed to create a bicameral legislature as a way to
(a) insure speedy passage of legislation (b) assure the right to vote to all adult males (c) address the issue of population differences among the states (d) satisfy the different interests of the rich and poor citizend