Towns often developed near oases because it was easy access to water and they could farm there.
Herbert Hoover and Al Smith ran in the election of 1928. Hoover and Smith represented different backgrounds, religious ideas; each appealed to different groups of Americans.
Source -- Quizlet
What was the main reason the United States and the Soviet Union became superpowers after World War II?
-> Both had nuclear weapons that the rest of the world feared.
Because they were running low on supplies and other goods were missing so they could survive