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Lesson 06.08: Module Six Assessment
Module Assignment: Module Six Assessment
Eighteen-year-old Rachel Calof moved to North Dakota with her husband to take
advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862. She happily wrote that her husband:
"was convinced that our best chance to make something of ourselves was to avail
ourselves of the offer of free land [and that homesteading] seemed a godsend to
penniless people who otherwise could not hope to buy land."
Sean McCollum, "Women on the Lone Prairie." Scholastic Update vol. 130, no. 4. (Oct.
1997): 18.

Why do you think owning property was important to Rachel and her husband

1) how did the mexican american war ignite a conflict over slavery between the north and the south? 2) explain how agricultural and textile factories impacted the economic development of south carolina. 3) explain how the results of the 1860 presidential election and the issue of states rights influenced south carolina’s decision to secede from the union. you: )

What were some reasons as to why britain and france followed a policy of appeasement when dealing with german, italian and japanese aggression (give me 3)? what did this policy lead to?

Read the first paragraph of the declaration of independence: which line in the following paragraph states that the colonists were declaring their independence from great britain? 1.the unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of america, 2.when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, 3.the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, 4.a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.