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    Western Expansion DBQ Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century‚ many Americans considered the lands west of the Mississippi as the "Great American Desert" and unfit for civilization. However‚ by the mid-1840s‚ migrants from the eastern United States transformed this vast desert into a fruitful land awaiting settlement and civilization known as the frontier. The development of the frontier was the result of the mass population of the many different regions of the far West. These regions

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    Determinant Expansion by Minors Also known as "Laplacian" determinant expansion by minors‚ expansion by minors is a technique for computing thedeterminant of a given square matrix . Although efficient for small matrices‚ techniques such as Gaussian elimination are much more efficient when the matrix size becomes large. Let  denote the determinant of a matrix ‚ then where  is a so-called minor of ‚ obtained by taking the determinant of  with row  and column  "crossed out." For example‚ for a  matrix

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    Throughout American history‚ many have worked to make constitutional and social equality for all Americans‚ slave and free‚ black and white. Between 1860 and 1877‚ America had gone through civil war and reconstruction‚ from destructive to constructive. Hence‚ there had been many factors that attributed to constitutional and social developments in America history‚ but the main reasons for the change could attribute to the economic rivalry between the industrial North and the agricultural

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    DBQ: Social and Constitutional Development in America (1860-1877) During the post-civil war era‚ America‚ specifically the south‚ was undergoing a period of reconstruction. The general goal of reconstruction was to successfully readmit the former Confederacy back into the Union as smoothly as possible‚ as well as enacting specific safeguards of freedmen’s liberties. The social and constitutional developments in America between 1860 and 1877 were very minor. The lack of change between pre

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    Reconstruction officially lasting from 1865 to 1877 began as President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to reunite the nation after the civil war. President Johnson continued Lincoln’s agenda initially but differed in terms of advancing civil rights for the newly freed. One of the biggest issues of Reconstruction was to grant equal rights to every American’s‚ especially for the African Americans. Even though slavery was abolished after the civil war‚ many Southerners‚ including Johnsons‚ were still against

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    The expansion of Western Europe started with the Iberian phase. Spain and Portugal‚ the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula‚ had a short-lived yet important role in European expansion. European expansion then turned to Western Europe. Western Europe consists of the Dutch‚ French‚ and British. While Western Europe was exploring new worlds overseas‚ the Russians were expanding westward across all of Eurasia. Religion played a major role in expansion for both the Portuguese and the Spanish due

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    Jefferson was the reason why the westward expansion started. Lewis and clark were wanting to start a journey to the western side. Lewis couldn’t do it alone so he asked clark come alone with him on the journey. So he did they had some hard times it wasn’t so easy as they though. Lewis brought him alone so he could get supplies for him if they ever needed them on there way over to the mississippi on the side of pacific ocean. Lewis had planned to go to the pacific but they had trouble on the way

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    Contributed to expansion? There were reasons for our westward expansion in the 19th century. One reason was our belief in Manifest Destin. Manifest Destiny: Definition The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents Identify the territory of US expansion? ? Gold Rush 1848-49 Facts 1.The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush 2.A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during

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    the country declared its independence from Britain in 1776. Growing from the original thirteen colonies along the eastern seaboard to eventually encompass a major part of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean‚ manifest destiny played a significant role. The manifest destiny of the country was to expand and grow as much as possible to provide ample space for the millions of people to come (Tindall & Shi‚ 2013). This growth and expansion increased opportunities for economic development

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    The Original Store Expansion Strategy: In 1992 and 1993 Starbucks developed a three-year geographic expansion strategy that targeted areas with favorable demographic profiles‚ that could be serviced and supported by the company’s operations infrastructure. A large city was selected to serve as a focal point for each targeted region. Starbucks professional teams were strategically positioned at these focal points to supervise opening of another 20 stores in each city in the first two years. Following

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