Which of the following provided the earliest written account of what life was like in North America?
A. James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans
B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha
C. Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
D. Christopher Columbus's first letter from the Americas

the correct answer is

d) rocket launcher

confederacy: supported slavery, believed states should be able to nullify federal laws, supported low tariffs

union: everything else

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

i

they had a lot of depression during the revolutionary war