The map shows the Mexican Cession, this is, the U.S. purchase of territories from Mexico to the West as agreed in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, in 1848, the year after the end of the Mexican-American War of 1846 -1847. An additional territory called La Mesilla (south of Arizona and New Mexico) was purchased in 1853.
Answer: C
The president proposes a budget and signs it into law after the House and Senate revise it.
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n November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was deposed by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with his handling of both the Buddhist crisis and the Viet Cong threat to the regime.
The Kennedy administration had been aware of the coup planning,[3] but Cable 243 from the United States Department of State to US Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., stated that it was US policy[4] not to try to stop it. Lucien Conein, the Central Intelligence Agency’s liaison between the US embassy and the coup planners, told them that the US would not intervene to stop it. Conein also provided funds to the coup leaders.[5]
The coup was led by General Dương Văn Minh and started on 1 November. It proceeded smoothly as many loyalist leaders were captured after being caught off-guard and casualties were light. Diệm was captured and executed the next day along
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Explanation: The astrolabe was an Arab invention that helped sailors find latitude. Calculating longitude required accurate clocks, which were not available when Columbus was exploring.
