Columbus himself had made that assumption. His discoveries posed for him, as for others, a problem of identification. It seemed to be a question not so much of giving names to new lands as of finding the proper old names, and the same was true of the things that the new lands contained. Cruising through the Caribbean, enchanted by the beauty and variety of what he saw, Columbus assumed that the strange plants and trees were strange only because he was insufficiently versed in the writings of men who did know them. "I am the saddest man in the world," he wrote, "because I do not recognize them."
By the beginning of the 1920s, women in much of the Western world had already acquired the right to vote, a conquest of the nineteenth-century suffragist movement.
The women of the 1920s left their corsets and went on to wear short hair, painted eyelids of dark color, red lips, low-cut dresses and knee-high socks the color of the skin.
There has been a major change in fashion and social mores. The women went to the beach in a one-piece swimsuit, smoked in public, drove their own car, and talked about sex. The charleston, vibrant dance with rapid movements of legs and arms infected the young At parties and meetings of high society and the intellectual milieu, homoaffective couples felt free to show themselves.
The correct answer to this question is D (Northerners became strong opponets of the strengthenied Fugitive Slave Act, which was part of the compromise)
