When the first American fur traders and settlers saw the Willamette Valley, they wrote glowingly about its natural beauty and its suitability for farming. It seemed to them as if nature had made the valley for the explicit purpose of planting crops, grazing livestock, and pleasing the eye of overland migrants from the east. Much less obvious to pioneers was the fact that Indians had very consciously shaped this environment through fire. Annual, low-intensity, controlled burns, set in the late summer, had minimized the valley's underbrush, reduced the number of trees, facilitated native hunting and gathering, and created the prairie-like appearance that settlers so appreciated. The Willamette Valley was in substantial part the artifice of Indians and of fires set by Indians.
Once American settlers set up homes in the area, however, their first impulse was to suppress the fires that Indians
The main reason why large plantations developed in the South during the colonial period was that<u> the climate in the South provided longer growing seasons. </u>(OPTION NUMBER 4)
The Articles of Confederation established its authority by <u>providing a system for the formation of new states.</u> (OPTION NUMBER 1)
A fundamental principle of a republican form of government is that <u>legislation must be passed by the elected representatives of the people.</u> (OPTION NUMBER 2)
The major argument the Antifederalists used to oppose the ratification of the constitution was the fact that <u>the proposed one did not contain the bill of rights</u>. (OPTION NUMBER 3)
Sectionalism in the 1800s In the early 1800s, sectionalism between the North and the South was based on slavery. While the North completely disagreed with the idea of slavery, the South was all for the idea of slavery.
"Planting trees throughout Sahel" is the one action among the following actions given in the question that would be the most effective long-term solution to fighting desertification in the Sahel.
