Chapter 17-The West: Exploiting an Empire Time Period: 1850-1900 1. Beyond the Frontier -line of white settlement at MO timber country by 1840s What’s in the West? What land? -“The Great Plains”/Prairie Plains: rich soil and good rainfall (Wisconsin down to Texas) -High Plains: rough‚ semiarid (Montana down to NMex.) -Rockies: formidable barrier (Alaska to NMex.) -Western Basin: home to many NA‚ desert‚ held in by the Cascades and Sierra Nevada‚ MOST travelers here (Idaho and Utah)
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an example of the way in which government power is A) dictatorial. B) limited. C) delegated to the states. D) without controls. Points Earned: | 1.0/1.0 | | Correct Answer(s): | B | 2. The power of the Supreme Court to declare actions of the other branches of government to be unconstitutional is known as A) judicial review. B) judicial activism. C) legislative ratification. D) the supremacy doctrine. Points Earned: | 1.0/1.0 | | Correct Answer(s): | A | 3.
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(1) Subsistence Farming: Majority of farmers in the country practise subsistence farming. It is characterised by small and scattered land holdings and use of primitive tools. As the farmers are poor‚ they do not use fertilisers and high yielding variety of seeds in their fields to the extent they should do. Facilities like electricity and irrigation are generally not available to them. These result into low productivity. Most of the food production is consumed by the farmers and their families. Where facilities
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Agriculture‚ also called farming or husbandry‚ is the cultivation of animals‚ plants‚ fungi‚ and other life forms for food‚ fiber‚ biofuel‚drugs and other products used to sustain and enhance human life.[1] Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization‚ whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture dates back thousands
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iron triangles? 3. How can the president and Congress control the bureaucracy? 4. What do bureaucrats do? 5. Why was the merit system established? 6. In terms of government‚ what is devolution? The Constitutional Roles of the President Chief Diplomat: The president is responsible for setting the direction of United States foreign policy. The president can make treaties with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The Senate must confirm ambassadors nominated by the president. (See
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After the Civil War ended the economy was indubitably unstable‚ American farmers encountered a sequence of problems from transportation to a complex worldwide market‚ for instance‚ some of these complaints were: unfair railroad fees and tariffs policies. These dilemmas led farmers to a horrible economic situation in which some homesteaders even lost their homes and farms. Consequently these farmers displayed a series of complaints in which they specified all the problems they were facing due to those
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Good evening congressmen and women. I am here to discuss the “successfulness” of the containment policy under the administration of President Harry Truman. The policy is composed of a series of strategies‚ including the Truman Doctrine‚ and the Marshall Plan‚ issued in order to prevent the spread of communism abroad. I believe that such strategies failed in their intention of containing communism. Despite our alliance with them during World War II‚ the United States is not very fond of the Soviet
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Articles of Confederation did not create a strong enough government to keep us unified and protected. Thus‚ the Constitution has been created to make sure a proper government is set-up and that our rights are secured. Although the concerns of Anti-Federalists’ are understood‚ I agree fully with the Federalist’s proposed structure of government. It covers the basic rights instituted in the Declaration of Independence‚ and creates a centralized government that will help serve and protect the country while
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PEASANTS AND FARMERS Q1.Explain what the open field system meant to rural people in 18th century in England from the point of view of (a) A rich man (b) A labourer (c) A peasant women. Ans: Open field system Before the 18th century in large parts of England the country side was open‚ it was not partitioned into enclosed lands privately owned by landlords. Peasants: They cultivated strips of land around the village they lived in. Mixed quality of land: At the beginning f each
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Chapter 10 Margin Questions In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns? Continuance can be seen in Byzantium’s roads‚ military structures‚ centralized administration‚ imperial court‚ laws‚ and Christian organization. It can also be seen in Byzantium’s pursuit of the long-term Roman struggle with the Persian Empire. Byzantium diverged through the development of a reformed administrative system that gave appointed
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