Why did so many Euro-Americans settle in the trans-Mississippi West?
What will be an ideal response?
The free or inexpensive land drew them if they were farmers, or if not, the jobs in the mines and railroads.
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What was the significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for African Americans?
A) It had almost no effect because huge numbers of slaves continued to live under slavery until the Civil War. B) The ordinance set a legal and geographical precedent for limiting where slavery could and could not exist. C) It demonstrated that the Articles of Confederation government had significant amounts of power in many areas. D) It banned the slave trade, but not slavery, from the territory.
The only woman in Chinese history to hold the title of emperor was
a. Li Bo. b. Wu Zhao. c. Mai Li. d. Nan Chao.
In the 1500s, what kind of states developed in Europe for the first time since Charlemagne?
a. politically fragmented mini-states b. city-states c. democracies d. powerful theocracies e. large centralized states
Otto von Bismarck was a Prussian reactionary aristocrat who had opposed the liberal movement in 1848, and was the right-hand man of Wilhelm I
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.