Contrast the different lives and tasks faced by pioneers on the agricultural, mining, and urban frontiers in the West of the 1840s and 1850s
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Life for pioneer farmers was difficult and lonely. The determination to reestablish familiar institutions was burdened by the mobility of the population as well as the chronic shortage of cash. Mining camps were more lively, but disorderly. Most experienced a typical pattern of boom, bust, decay, and death. The fantasies of quick profits materialized for few as mining operations required large capital and mechanical resources. Emigrants to cities such as San Francisco, Portland, and Denver generally pursued business and professional ventures.
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a. gold, ivory, and incense. b. agricultural goods, gold, and copper. c. ivory, agricultural goods, and timber. d. gold, incense, and basalt.
At its height in the second century, how large was the population of the Roman Empire?
a. Almost one billion b. Less than four million c. Over 600 million d. Between 30 and 35 million e. More than 50 million
What pushed Congress to create the Military Reconstruction Act?
a. Johnson's continued insistence on the 10 percent plan b. The fear that the Fourteenth Amendment might be defeated c. The inability of the former Confederate states to form new governments d. Johnson's veto of the bill to reauthorize the Freedman's Bureau
All of the following are true about “taking power” and “making power” except:
a. it is necessary to engage in oppositional politics to corporate and state power to take power. b. if we only take power we will replicate the hierarchical structures in our movements. c. you cannot effectively create change by both taking and making power; you need to choose one over the other. d. we make power by creating structures, movements, and communities that model the world we are trying to create.