Of these land acquisitions, which one doubled the size of the United States?

a) Oregon Territory
b) Gadsden Purchase
c) Louisiana Purchase
d) Land Ordinance of 1787


c) Louisiana Purchase
This western US purchase from France included land from Louisiana to Idaho.

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What will be an ideal response?

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"Forty-niners" was the name given to:

a. people who travelled to California to search for gold b. founders of a new party created to give women the vote c. the 49 percent who voted for Democrat Lewis Cass against Zachary Taylor for President d. the 49 fugitive slaves who attempted to start a revolt in Charleston

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In the early second century, who built the wall (shown in the image) that still runs across northern Britain?

A) Hadrian B) Augustus C) Vespasian D) Domitian

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Linnaeus' System a Naturae

a. layed out a classification of plants. b. all of the answers are correct. c. grouped species into hierarchies of increasingly more general categories. d. refered to genus/order/class/kingdom categories. e. allowed for any new plant to be placed in a well-ordered system.

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