Answer: Which event happened prior to the signing the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862?
A. Asa Whitney requested the right to build a transcontinental railroad.
B. The end of the Civil War freed veterans to work on the railroad.
C. The Golden Spike ceremony was held in honor of the transcontinental railroad.
D. Railroad workers drilled tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Explanation:
Answer: c is the answer.
Explanation: The 1868 Republican National Convention unanimously nominated Grant, who had been the highest-ranking Union general at the end of the Civil War. Grant decisively won the electoral vote, but his margin was narrower in the popular vote.
Answer: Wealthy civilizations conquered neighboring areas.
Explanation:
Military conquests have always been an expensive undertaking and this was no different in the ancient world. Wealthier nations were able to field stronger armies as they had the resources to do so.
They would then invade and conquer their neighbours so that they would increase in both power and influence which would enable them gain even more wealth. This is how the empires that controlled the ancient world were born and sustained.
Answer:
Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.
Explanation:
Answer:
The French who had direct contact with the Americans were able to successfully implement Enlightenment ideas into a new political system. The National Assembly in France even used the American Declaration of Independence as a model when drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen in 1789.
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