Clara
Barton was an American nurse, known for creating the independent American Red
Cross after the outbreak of the Civil War. After the civil war, she helped in
looking for thousands of lost soldiers, as well as classifying the dead in
Andersonville prison, Georgia.
<span>She
got recognized in International Committee of the Red Cross and became the president
of the American chapter after being founded on 1881. Until her death on 1912,
she continued doing her job both inside and outside America.</span>
The answer of the question above is 1,200 miles.
From Norfolk, Virgina to Port Lavaca, Texas, the Cotton Kingdom in 1860 was about 1,200 miles wide. The Cotton Kingdom is the region of the United States where cotton was massively produced up until the American Civil War.
The third alternative is correct (C).
<u>Both the Wall of China and the Silk Road represented, in their respective periods, the political power of China as a nation.
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<u>The Great Wall</u> crosses mountains and rivers and is considered one of the great wonders of the world. Many of the stones used in its construction measure more than two meters and its weight exceeds one ton. The main reason for its construction was the desire to defend itself against the attacks of the nomadic peoples of the north, but also was used to transfer people and armaments at great speed from one side to another, demonstrating the technological character of the work.
<u>The Silk Road</u> was a series of commercial and cultural transmission routes that were central to the cultural interaction between the West and the East. Silk was certainly China's main trade item, but many other goods were also marketed. These routes allowed the development of strong commercial relations of the Chinese empire with Persia, India and the Roman Empire.
After WWI and during the Great Depression the US tried to be an Isolationist nation. They put out tariffs so people would buy US (forgetting that the rest of the world was still devastated by WWI (economies included)).
