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US History Leap 2025 Review 100% Solved Assimilation Blending in with the dominant group bimetallic standard monetary standard based on two metals, usually silver and gold Homesteaders Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act. pull factor A factor that draws or attracts people to another location push factor Factors that induce people to leave old residences. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United St...

The 14th Amendment Correct Answer-The Fourteenth Amendment says that people who are born or naturalized in the U.S. are granted citizenship. They are to enjoy the privileges and rights of citizenship: the right to life, liberty, and property, and equal protection under the law. In Section 2, it also explains that representative are to be apportion based on a state's population, and that the right to vote should not be denied, although it does not explicitly mention anything about race. It menti...

PRAXIS 5004 TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) A GRADE Which of the following countries have territorial claims in Kashmir? - Answer-The countries of India, Pakistan, and China are in a triangular conflict in Kashmir because all three countries make territorial claims in Kashmir. Which of the following best explains how intensive agriculture, poor irrigation practices, and overgrazing have affected the environment? - Answer-They have contributed to the desertification of areas ...

APUSH- AMSCO period 6 Latest 2023 Graded A Great American Desert The vast arid territory which includes the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and Western Plateau (this is in between the Mississippi River and Pacific Coast) was named this. Mining frontier The western states which had series of gold strikes including, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and South Dakota. Comstock Lode The major U.S. discovery of gold and silver (this produced over $340 million in gold and silver by 1890)...

NM HISTORY EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ What was not an issue in New Mexico becoming a state? Correct Answer: Population size Ironclad clauses are almost impossible to alter in the New Mexico state constitution because a change would require: Correct Answer: Need 3/4 majority of the state and 2/3 majority of each county to change. Why was New Mexico's constitution considered "safe and sane"? Correct Answer: It was not politically radical. T...

NM History Questions and Answers 100% Pass What was not an issue in New Mexico becoming a state? Population size Ironclad clauses are almost impossible to alter in the New Mexico state constitution because a change would require: Need 3/4 majority of the state and 2/3 majority of each county to change. Why was New Mexico's constitution considered "safe and sane"? It was not politically radical. This set into motion the processes for New Mexican's to create a suitable consti...

NM HISTORY REVIEW UNIT 3 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS who secured New Deal money for New Mexico Franklin D Roosevelt where was the state Constitutional Convention held Santa Fe what did the ironclad Clauses accomplish allowed Hispanic males to vote what is Elephant Butte Lake Dam and Reservoir that brings water to New Mexico what did the Panama Canal do allowed ships to sail from the Atlantic to Pacific without having to sell around the capenorn where were most homesteaders loca...

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SDC History Challenge Exam | updated 2024 Abraham Lincoln () - National Union/Republican (Liberal back then) -Civil War -Emancipation Proclamation (Freedom Manifesto) abolished slavery in North -13th Amendment -Battle of Gettysburg -Domestic Affairs (borders) -Homestead Act of 1862 (encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid small filing fee and required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ow...

NM HISTORY REVIEW UNIT 3 EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ who secured New Deal money for New Mexico Correct Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt where was the state Constitutional Convention held Correct Answer: Santa Fe what did the ironclad Clauses accomplish Correct Answer: allowed Hispanic males to vote what is Elephant Butte Lake Correct Answer: Dam and Reservoir that brings water to New Mexico what did the Panama Canal do Correct Answer: allowed ship...