“The political geography of this nation was a product of various treaties and acquisitions that eventually resulted in the country extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.”
So the answer must be:
C.) The United States gained the area between the Atlantic Ocean and Appalachian Mountains from the original thirteen colonies in 1770.
I n t r o d u c t i o nHan Fei (d. 233 BCE) was a student of the philosopher Xunzi (c. 310-c. 219 BCE), but abandoned Confucian philosophy in favor of the more pragmatic and hardheaded approach of men like Lord Shang (Shang Yang or Gongsun Yang, d. 338 BCE), whom we collectively label as “Legalists.” Han Fei worked as an official for the state of Qin until he was executed in 233 BCE, allegedly on charges manipulated by a fellow official, Li Si (d. 208 BCE), who was also formerly a fellow student under Xunzi. Han Fei is most famous, however, for having developed a thorough and systematic synthesis of Legalist and Daoist philosophy, which we see in the book which bears his name--a book of which he is possibly the real author, but which at any rate is accepted as a reasonably accurate representation of his thinking.D o c u me n t E x c e r p t s wi t h Q u e s t i o n s (Longer selection follows this section)From Sources of Chinese Tradition, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), 199-203. © 1999 Columbia University Press. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.Selectionsfromthe Han Feizi:Chapter 49, “The Five Vermin
The Berlin Blockade<span> (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the </span>Cold War<span>. During the </span>multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany<span>, the </span>Soviet Union<span> blocked the </span>Western Allies<span>' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of </span>Berlin<span> under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced </span>Deutsche mark<span> from </span>West Berlin<span>.</span>
