Which of the following was true of America's westward expansion in the 1800s?
A) Southerners moved west in order to find land to grow wheat.
B) Cities like New Orleans and Memphis served as trading and transportation hubs for the growing West.
C) Soil exhaustion in the Great Plains drew Americans to the Southeast and New England.
D) Cotton growers moved through Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas, eventually populating Texas.
E) Northerners moved in order to find employment in the Southwest.
D
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A. David Hume B. Robert Jacques Turgot C. Josiah Wedgwood D. Emelyan Pugachev
The Great War was precipitated by the
A) Austrians launching a massive offensive across Switzerland in order to outflank and surprise the French. B) assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by a Serbian nationalist. C) French invading Germany to seek revenge for their humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War. D) inability of the French and the Germans to reach a peaceful settlement in their dispute over control of the Alsace-Lorraine region.
The United States acquired __________ as a result of the Mexican-American War
. A) Washington B) Texas C) Oregon D) California
How did patterns of class and gender roles change in eighteenth century America?
What will be an ideal response?