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WGU D189 Pacific NW History Final Exam Study Guide How did many Native Americans in the PNW resist assimilation during the late 19th century? - They adopted the dreamer religion. How did Seattle's Watcher on the Tower newspaper depict the Ku Klux Klan during the 19th-20th? - It viewed them as protective of American society. How did the arrival of a large number of successful Klondike gold miners in 1897 change Seattle's economic development? -Seattle became a major outfitting center for...

US History Regents Test Questions In the late 1800's, many American farmers believed that their economic problems would be solved by which action of the Federal Government? - putting more money into circulation The term "robber barons" was used during the Gilded Ages to characterize plantation owners. t or f - f What has been the most frequent criticism of the electoral college system? - The person who wins the popular vote has not always been chosen as President was an action ...

Homicide Exam Questions With Verified Solutions R V AHLUWALIA (1993) 96 CR APP R 13 - answerFacts: This case is decided under the old law of provocation. The appellant poured petrol and caustic soda on to her sleeping husband and then set fire to him. He died six days later from his injuries. The couple had an arranged marriage and the husband had been violent and abusive throughout the marriage. He was also having an affair. On the night of the killing he had threatened to hit her with an...

NM History Unit 2 Exam Latest Update Graded A+ what was the last Spanish settlement established in the US Las Vegas New Mexico what did New Mexicans do in the Spanish-American War to prove their loyalty fighting with the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War what did more trade routes and an increase in trade do for New Mexico increase population what treaty ended the Mexican-American War Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago what Trail opened in 1821 and increased trade and tran...

Westward Expansion A movement westward for jobs, land, hope, the gold rush, adventure, a new beginning and the transcontinental railroad. It lasted from Transcontinental Railroad Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US Manifest Destiny 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent. Homestead Act 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years Dawes Act 1887 law which gave all Na...

APUSH AMSCO Main points of Unit 6 (6.3 and 6.4) Exam Study Guide Learning Objective (6.3) - Answer️️ --Explain the causes and effects of the settlement of the West from 1877 to 1898 Turner's Frontier Thesis - Answer️️ -Argument by historian Fredrick Jackson Turner says that argued the American character was shaped by the existence of the frontier and the way Americans interacted and developed the frontier, he felt that the frontier encouraged individualism and democracy. He belie...

Exam- period 6 APUSH- AMSCO Questions and Answers Cattle drives - ANSWER -Rounding cattle up and moving them from one area to another by cowboys. Barbed wire - ANSWER -Homesteaders had used these fencings to cut off the cattle from accessing formerly open range. Farming frontier - ANSWER -The Great Plains was mainly the farming frontier. Settlement in the farming frontier was encouraged by the Homestead Act (which gave 160 acres of public land free to any family that settled on it f...

What are we observing? The Kellogg Briand Pact What was the aim of the Kellogg-Briand Pact? to prevent a future war, by getting countries to promise not to use military force to settle disagreements (62 countries including USA, France & Germany) When was the pact signed? August 1928 What did the pact do? renounced war and was an instrument of national policy committed to resolving disputes through peaceful means. What does the pact summarize in American thinking? ...

SDC American History Exam Questions and Answers All Correct how did southern states attempt to block newly freed blacks from practicing their rights? - Answer-literacy tests, black codes, grandfather clause and poll taxes what did each of the following amendments provide for African Americans? 13th 14th and 15th - Answer-13th- abolished slavery 14th- granted equal rights 15th- all men had the right to vote. how did the election of 1876 bring about the end of reconstruction? - Answer-Re...

Indian Reservation - ️️Land Native Americans were forced to live on during the Gilded Age. It was used as a way to force assimilation. Native Americans presently have more control over these lands and are free to leave Indian Wars - ️️A result of America expanding west and the forced assimilation of Native Americans Assimilation - ️️When one country or people adopt another more dominate culture either by choice or by force Dawes Act - ️️Division of Native American lands....