Urbanization and the west Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Land grants that allowed for the building of the transcontinental railroads were Pacific Railway Act and Homestead Act Sells Land Pacific Railway Act The government gives you land as long as you utilize it Homestead Act How did the railroad affect the country? Helped create a national market Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society by dividing farming land and giving it to individual families Dawes Severality Act What are the factors ...

GACE 087- Social Studies, Reading, and English Latest 2024 Graded A+ Consumer A person who purchases good and services for personal use. Producer Someone who creates and supplies goods or services. Entrepreneur someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the ownership risks of a new business. Investor a person or organization that puts money into financial schemes, property, etc. with the expectation of achieving a profit. Treaty of Versailles A document signed between German...

VCEHP Module Questions and Answers Already Passed What defines a vector? a. They are transmitters of disease-causing organisms known as pathogens b. They carry pathogens from one host to another c. Vertebrate animals such as rodents, raccoons, foxes, and others, cannot be vectors d. Arthropods, which are insects or arachnids, are the most important vectors a. They are transmitters of disease-causing organisms known as pathogens b. They carry pathogens from one host to another d. A...

GACE 087- Social Studies, Reading, and English Latest 2024 Graded A+ Consumer A person who purchases good and services for personal use. Producer Someone who creates and supplies goods or services. Entrepreneur someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the ownership risks of a new business. Investor a person or organization that puts money into financial schemes, property, etc. with the expectation of achieving a profit. Treaty of Versailles A document signed between Germany and the Al...

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY FINAL EXAM ACTUAL TEST NEW GEN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024 SOLVED AND VERIFIED 100% Which of the items below describes a way that the physical environment affects people? Choose all that apply. 1. Maria, who lives in Juneau, Alaska, has an older brother and a younger sister. 2. Jocelyn, who lives in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, makes her living by selling lobsters to local restaurants. 3. Derrick, who lives near the Shenandoah Mountains, spends most weekends hiking. 4. C...

Where did the world first urbanize, and why? How did urbanization spread around the world, geographically? Correct Answer: - Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia in 3625 B.C. between - agriculture led to the first cities How have shares of the world's population shifted between urban and rural areas over the past several decades? Correct Answer: - The world became majority urban population in the last 200 years from industrialization - 2008 marked majority urban - The rural population h...

vertical integration - answer andrew carnagie- the steel company you own and control every aspect of production horizontal integration - answer John D. Rockefeller- oil business- "Standard Oil" you align your business with your competitors and begin to take control of their company allowing you to monopolize your profit trusts - answer developed by Rockefeller- smaller oil company assign their stock to the board of directors of standard oil JP morgan - answer biggest banker/financer...

Amsco AP US History Chapter 9sectionalism - correct answers a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole, ultimately led to the Union's worst crisis: civil war between the North and the South in the early 1860s Daniel Webster - correct answers "The East, the West, the North, and the stormy South all combine to throw the whole ocean into commotion, to toss its billows to the skies, and to disclose its profoundest depths." Daniel Webster,...

CSET : Social Science - Subtest 1 SOLUTIONS 100% REVISED 2023//2024 Efforts of archeologists to advance the understanding of prehistory are mainly based on what assumption about ancient people and cultures? - ANSWER Material remains reflect important aspects of human behavior. What was the main function of monumental architecture in early Mesopotamia and ancient costal Peru? - ANSWER To provide a site for the performance of religious rituals. What was the main source of wealth an...

Amsco APUSH Chapter 9 graded A+ Northeast part of North including New England and the Middle Atlantic states Old Northwest part of North stretching from Ohio to Minnesota sectionalism different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West), causes conflict Nativists people who reacted strongly against foreigners, mostly Protestants American Party/Know-Nothing Party political organization that was created after the election of 1852 by the Know-Not...