<span>the Louisiana purchase, the Mexican American war won California and other territory in the south west</span>
The answer to this question is A. Jet streams
Jet streams are located near the altitude of the upper troposphere. It's a movement of wind that travels from one side of the planet hemisphere to another. The movement of jet streams will bring up different temperature of air which could influence the weather that exist in certain regions.
Great Britain was fully industrialized with it's cities having smoke coming out of it's factories from as far as your eyes can see and making materials and products that were traded almost all over the world. Unlike Britain, Russia was the complete opposite. Russia was a mostly had agricultual economy with a serfdom system that was more than 200 years old, having little to no factories and it's products, materials, etc coming from industrialized countries like Britain, France and the various German states at the time.
raise hand in a friendly manner, wave, force a smile, nod and make eye contact for a split-second before purposefully making themselves busy with something else to avoid beginning conversation and real human connection and interaction
He had a different religion than them