Describe the key features of American settlement in the West in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. After 1790, a flood of people rushed west to stake out farms.
2. Many settlers followed the so-called northern route across Pennsylvania or New York into the old Northwest Territory.
3. Wherever they located, westerners depended on water transportation.
4. Families that moved west attempted to transplant familiar eastern customs to the frontier.
5. The mix of people from different backgrounds living in an unfamiliar land led to the development of distinctive folkways.
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a. demonstrated the weaknesses of Wilson's foreign policy. b. liberated Mexico from Spain. c. demonstrated that the United States could successfully use force to reorder the affairs of nations. d. led to the U.S. takeover of Mexico. e. was welcomed by the Mexican people.
Black workers gained greater opportunities for organization in 1936 when John Lewis established the
a. AFL. b. CIO. c. NIRA. d. NLRB.
The Sufis
A) believed that a path of discipline leads to mystical communion with Allah. B) suffered the execution of al-Hallaj, a famous teacher, for blasphemy. C) were accused of claiming to be above the law and divine. D) all of the above. E) none of the above.
Nezhualcoyotl is best known as a ________
A) king B) priest C) warrior D) conqueror