They were looking for the "Northwest Passage" to the sea. Or basically seeing where America ended in the northwest side of the country.
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Answer:
Too many taxes
Explanation:
After the French and Indian War, Britain was bankrupt and needed money. Since they knew that they helped the colonists in the war, they thought it was right for them to pay them back, so they started to put heavy taxes and started to send troops to the colonies. Obviously the colonists were not happy about this.
Russia has part of its roots in European culture where the ideas of goodness, honor, and freedom are understood as in the West. The Viking raiders came from the North. Traders from Scandinavia also settled. They became the rulers of Rus, the city-principality of Kiev and forerunner of the Russian state. The other part of Russia has Asian roots. The Mongols, [Tartars] conquered Moscow in 1234 and Kiev in 1240, and ruled with despotism, invaders unstoppable, making Russians their slaves. Russian blood is a mixture of Slavic, Finnish, and Tatar. Kievan Rus had converted to Orthodox Christianity in 988. When Moscow liberated itself from the Tartar yoke in 1480, the modern Russian state was born. Distant from Europe, the new state was cut off from Constantinople which in 1453 had fallen to the Muslim Ottoman Turks.
The Santa Fe Trail was significant because it connected Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico making it a vital commercial transportation system until when the railroad was built in 1880, This was significant in that it facilitated trade and the movement of people
Answer:
The "Gilded Age" term came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's and Charles Dudley Warner's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding.
Explanation:
Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
