Generally speaking, "A. the average election results of the President of the United States" would not be considered an example of geography's impact on history, since this has little do with with geography in the United States.
Answer:
Until the Mexican-American War (1846–48) only a few Americans—explorers, soldiers, trappers, sheep drivers—visited Arizona. In 1851 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sent several expeditions into Arizona to find a suitable route on which to build a wagon road to California. To protect travelers, miners, and other settlers from Native Americans, the U.S. government began to locate army posts at key sites. In 1883 workers completed the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway across northern Arizona, thereby linking St. Louis, Missouri, with California; that same year the Southern Pacific Railroad completed a line from New Orleans to Los Angeles by way of Tucson and Yuma.
Explanation:
They were wondering in search of their lost family members, they were constantly in danger, with a possibility of being killed, secretly enslaved or beaten up harshly. Their lives for sure were quite bitter even after the civil war. After all, the war could not change the point of view of the landowners in the South in a fingerclick, that required much more time and patience.
Lowe courts were created so smaller cases could be dealt with ehile the supreme court takes on high federal cases