North America was the closest comparison. The mongol empire covered 9.15 million square miles of land while North America covers 9.54 million square miles of land.
Answer: The Compromise of 1850 was necessary because the North and the South were badly split on the issue of the lands that had been taken from Mexico in the recent war. California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, but that would have upset the balance between free and slave states.
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The primary purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804 - 1806 was to search for a water route across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This was the stated purpose of the expedition in President Jefferson's written instruction to Lewis and Clark. the other purpose, such as befriending the Native Americans and cataloging flora and fauna, were secondary.
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Each cartoon demonstrates the power of the Titans during the Gilded Age. In the first they are riding on the backs of the poor immigrants looking disheveled and weak and in the second the octopus is strangling the worker. Both present a view that the worker is being exploited or destroyed by the greed of the Titans.
The octopus is appropriate imagery as it shows the varied reach of companies like Standard Oil. They were in control of the government, banks, workers, etc. The octopus is ominous and comes out of nowhere but is ultimately dangerous in how they can extend in many directions and can hold on tight making all in the grasp helpless.
