In medieval towns, unhealthy living conditions led to the spread of illness. The town were very dirty places. There was no running water in homes, and people used outdoor privies or chamber pots instead of bathrooms, which they emptied into nearby streams and canals.
Answer:
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility.
Answer:
C. a wealthy backcountry settler in Virginia
Explanation:
In 1673, he arrived from England to Virginia, where he acquired two plantations in the western territories bordering with the Indians. Protecting the interests of planters and farmers whose lands were in the west of the colony, he demanded decisive action by the colony administration to oust and exterminate the Indians, criticizing the governor and his entourage for their passivity and unwillingness to lose income from profitable trade with the Indian tribes. For disobedience to the governor, Nathaniel Bacon was declared a rebel. In the summer of 1676 he captured the capital of the colony - Jamestown - and forced the legislative assembly of the colony to adopt a series of decrees known as the Bacon's Laws.
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Sooner: A person who attempted to enter and claim the Unassigned Lands before the Dawes Act
homesteader: A person who claimed a portion of land and then lived on it for five years to gain ownership
Boomer: A person who settled on land illegally just before a land run
Explanation:
These terms are derived from the 19th century US history and are related with the,
- The Homestead Acts
- Indian Appropriations Act of 1889
- Land Rush of 1889
This was the time when many of the unassigned lands in the west were settled by the Europeans. Specially after the purchase of Louisiana.
Answer: England ceded Florida to the USA in 1819.
Spain gave Florida to England in exchange for Havana, Cuba at the end of the 7-Years War 1756-1763. But England lost Florida to Spain after the American Revolution.
