The 'two rivers' of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the island) by the Arabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization began.
<em>The revolution in Texas lead to war with Mexico in that the land dispute over the border between Mexico and Texas caused the Mexican American War. The advantages that the United States had were that it was wealthier, larger, and more populous than Mexico.</em>
Answer:
b. Cuba
Explanation:
the US primarily fought in Cuba during the war, (battle of San Juan hill), the Phillipines was also a spanish possession that the U.S. gained as well
Since this is a timed test I'm pretty sure i'm too late to give the answer but it's C. Hope this helped (although i'm late)
Answer:
One helpful statistic we can use is the amount of enslaved people per county, in the year 1860, just a year before the American Civil War.
Explanation:
This statistic can be used as a proxy to determine the counties were cotton had the highest production, because cotton was a cash crop grown in large plantations that were worked by enslaved African Americans.
Several counties had 80% or more slaves as percentage of the total population, meaning that they were overwhelmingly black. The majority of these counties were located in the Mississippi Delta, in the state of the same name, in the Black Belt of Alabama and Georgia, and in southern South Carolina.
