Deadly Deserts and Towering Mountains. ... China's towering mountain ranges cover two-thirds of the country, including the Himalayas, which hold the world's tallest peaks along the country's western borders. These treacherous deserts and mountains kept early China isolated from Western civilizations.
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Slavery was THE great debate of the 1850's as was the question of continuing a union that threatened the lives and property of the South. It caused Lincoln's election in 1860 and fueled the movement to secession and war. Slavery was the dividing point over which there was a limit to the compromises that could be effected. It clearly drove the decade as it had shaped the whole century.
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C. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
Explanation:
As this assassination was done in Serbian territory, the Austrian-Hungarian government was extremely angered and used this event to bring Serbia into a fold. Obviously, Serbia did not accept the terms of Austria-Hungary and instead became allies with the Russian Empire.
In Marbury v. Madison (1803) the Supreme Court announced for the first time the principle that a court may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the Constitution. William Marbury had been appointed a justice of the peace for the District of Columbia in the final hours of the Adams administration. When James Madison, Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, refused to deliver Marbury’s commission, Marbury, joined by three other similarly situated appointees, petitioned for a writ of mandamus compelling delivery of the commissions.
