The Akkadian Empire was destroyed in part by what climatic change in 2200 B.C.E.?
a. severe drought
b. a new Ice Age
c. a shift in the course of the Tigris
d. freak snowfalls in the valley
e. flooding of the Black Sea
a
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In nineteenth-century Canada, liberal and nationalist movements led to
a. the secession of French-speaking territories. b. parliamentary self-government with the British monarch at the head. c. the implementation of a federal system similar to that in the United States. d. a violent confrontation between English and French cultures.
Why was Alexis de Tocqueville interested in visiting the United States?
A) To help establish a cotton mill in Waltham B) To investigate American democracy C) To find a location where he could hide from the French secret police D) To demonstrate that American society was teetering on collapse and headed for another revolution E) To investigate the causes of the long economic depression that had caused so much hardship in the new nation
During the nineteenth century, the center of cotton production ________
A) moved westward B) moved eastward C) moved northward D) remained in the Southeast E) remained in the upper South
The Republican Party
A. advocated popular sovereignty to defuse the issue of slavery in the territories. B. quickly won solid voter support in the elections of 1854 and 1855. C. prospered because of northern outrage over "Bleeding Sumner" and "Bleeding Kansas." D. won the presidency the first time it fielded a national ticket.