Unlike European immigrants, native-born American settlers of the Great Plains tended to:
A) form tight-knit distinctive communities.
B) look for secluded areas to form colonies.
C) add to the violence and instability of the West.
D) settle as individual families isolated on a solitary homestead.
Answer: D
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A) praised the middle class for their contributions to economic growth of the United States. B) stated that consumption was a noble way to escape the vagrancy of urban life. C) theorized that middle-class consumption was done mainly for superficial purposes. D) believed that the material culture was solid in its foundation.
Which of these was the focus of Egyptian monoculture?
A) tobacco B) wheat C) millet D) cotton
The only part of the Compromise of 1850 strongly supported by the South was:
A) throwing open Indian Territory to slavery. B) postponing a determination of the boundaries of Texas. C) admission of California to the union as a slave state. D) the enactment of a Fugitive Slave Law.
Southern and Northern Democrats in the House of Representatives passed the "gag rule" in order to __________
A) stop the immediate abolition of slavery B) outlaw the internal slave trade in the United States C) automatically table and not consider antislavery petitions sent to Congress D) promote the benefits of slavery