The discovery of ____ in California resulted in a drastic rise in population for that territory, and in 1849, they asked to be admitted as a state.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: Gold
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Henry IV of France was ____________________, which meant that he insisted that the survival of the state took precedence over religious differences
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Emperor Ashoka is responsible for which of the following?
A. a decline in the spread of Buddhism B. improved communication and trade throughout India C. an increase in the spread of Brahmanism D. the suppression of non-Buddhist faiths
Hispanics who lived in the borderland communities of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico
a. had grazed sheep on the open range in the 1870s. b. found their freight businesses replaced by the railroads by the 1880s. c. increasingly competed with Anglo settlers for grazing land. d. were squeezed out by major livestock companies. e. All of these choices.
Which of these was the direct result of Powhatan attacks against the colony at Jamestown that began in 1622?
A) The colonial population doubled. B) The crown created the House of Burgesses. C) Tobacco became scarce in England. D) The Virginia Company went into bankruptcy.