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Voting Question: history questions i need to learn these please help?
its in a study guide but it has 95 questions and im unsure of these can someone help me so i can learn them please..

1. Who also owned Louisiana at one time, other than France and the United States?
A. Spain
B. England
C. Mexico
D. Canada
2. Jefferson defended his decision to purchase Louisiana without congressional consent by stating that…
A. he was not aware of that requirement.
B. he had done it for the good of the nation.
C. it would have been too expensive and time consuming to send all of the negotiators to the United States.
D. he knew that Congress would give their consent afterwards.
3. The Louisiana Territory extended from the Mississippi River to the . . .
A. Appalachian Mountains
B. Rocky Mountains
C. Pacific Ocean
D. Atlantic Ocean
4. Although the total purchase price of the Louisiana Territory was $15 million, only part was given in cash because…
A. the rest of the price was paid in exported goods to France.
B. the remainder of the money was promised to Americans who had financial claims against France.
C. that is all that the negotiators had at the time.
D. no one would loan Jefferson the entire amount.
5. Manifest Destiny was…
A. the name of the empire that Napoleon dreamed of ruling.
B. one of the ships that the French used to come to America.
C. a document that was written to give the President power to buy land.
D. a phrase used to explain the continental expansion of the United States.
6. Finish this famous quote: Let the land rejoice, for you have bought Louisiana for a…
A. deal.
B. better America.
C. few pennies an acre.
D. song
7. The Louisiana Purchase was ratified by the Senate on
A. July 31, 1805.
B. April 30, 1803.
C. October 20, 1803.
D. November 1, 1813.
8. Robert Livingston was sent to France with the task of purchasing . . .
A. the Gulf of Mexico.
B. New Orleans and the Floridas.
C. the Louisiana Territory.
D. Mississippi.
9. Why were some members of Congress opposed to the Louisiana Purchase?
A. They were not interested in Westward Expansion.
B. Jefferson did not get Congressional consent before closing the deal with France.
C. Fifteen million was too much money to pay for the territory.
D. They did not want to do business with Napoleon Bonaparte.
10. The United States wanted access to the port of New Orleans because…
A. it had become very important to American commerce and the transportation of goods.
B. it was to be the location of the new capital city.
C. once they had control of it, they could force their way west.
D. the ground was extremely fertile and the climate was good for agriculture.

11. One person who did NOT sign the Treaty of New Echota was…
A. Stand Waite
B. Major Ridge
C. John Ridge
D. John Ross

12. The Cherokee who signed the Treaty of New Echota were…
A. crazy
B. tricked
C. killed
D. selfish

13. How did most of the white population feel about Indians?
A. they thought Indians were uncivilized
B. they thought Indians should be able to live as they wanted
C. they didn’t really care about Indians and often forgot about them
D. they appreciated the customs of the Indians

14. Which side were the Cherokees on during the Creek War in 1813 and 1814?
A. they fought with the Creeks against Andrew Jackson
B. they fought with Jackson against the Creeks
C. they were neutral and refused to become involved
D. they began fighting with Jackson, but then changed their minds

15. What was the “Trail of Tears”?
A. the name given to all of the trails the Cherokee followed as they were relocated to the West
B. a very specific trail that ran from Florida to Nebraska
C. the trail the led to the burial grounds of the Cherokee that died during war
D. the trail that the Cherokee women and children followed after the men were captured

16. The settlers wanted to move onto Indian land because they thought it was…
A. valuable
B. too much for the Cherokee to take care of
C. theirs
D. full of ancient spirits

17. According to the story of Samuel, Indians were kept locked up for months in…
A. wagons.
B. stockades.
C. boats.
D. their homes.

18. When Martin Van Buren became President after Jackson, what action did he take concerning the Trail of Tears?
A. he cancelled the Indian Removal Act
B. he sent in troops to made sure the Indians were gathered into camps to wait for removal
C. he ignored it and did nothing
D. he tried to negotiate with the Cherokee leaders to come up with a better solution

19. How many Cherokee Indians died during removal?
A. about 800
B. over 4,000
C. just under 16,000
D. exactly 1,830

20. What did the Cherokee become in order to live more like the whites.
A. fair skinned
B. politi

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Resolved Question: Who was trying to sell land in Nebraska in an 1872 advertisement?
A. Burlington and Missouri River RR Co.
B. Union Pacific RR Co.
C. the state of Nebraska
D. Central Pacific RR Co.
E. the federal government

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Resolved Question: My horror story so far?
Tell me what you think so far, and any tips I can use. Thanks in advance

Most of the time I sat in my front patio. Watching the world pass me by. I watched as the old town of St. Petersburg became less and less occupied. Located in the state of Nebraska, St. Petersburg is a small town, isolated from all civilization. Surround by beautiful pine trees, it was quite well hidden. One way in, one way out. Normally I would sit outside watching the channel 4 news on my half-beaten 10 inch Radio TV or I would be watching my home town Florida Marlins play ball. The forecast for today was sunny with no chance of rain. So it seemed kind of odd to find the town covered with rain clouds. The rain started to lightly drizzle amongst the down hill street, which my house rested on. A cold blast of wind blew strong caressing against my bare skin. The skies darken as the rain got heavier. I observed my neighbor’s rocking chair as it slowly rocked back and forth, back and forth. The street quickly turned into a flowing river as the rain water flowed down hill.
It was then when I notice a baby’s bottle flowing down. After it ran a young girl, no older than 20, I would say. She stopped in my presence, took a quick glare at me and ran back in the opposite direction. Her face had horror written all over it. The sheer look she gave me was horrific. But the look wasn’t directed at me. It was directed to something behind me. What had she seen?
I was too terrified to find out. My hands began to tremble as my muscles tighten, trying to reject my movement. I didn’t want to turn around, but I had no choice. I swallow my pride and slowly tilted my head around, while moving backwards. What I saw will hunt me forever. A dark human like shadowy figure stood before me. It had no face, no clothes, no nothing. It was just a solid black thing. I would say it was 6 foot 5 inches tall, judging by my own height. As I looked up at it, I started to back peddle into the hill where the rain started to hit me. The thing arched its head and moved slightly forward almost walking into the street, up until the thing noticed the rain and vanished into thin air.
Millions of questions ran through my head all at once.
What had I just seen?
Was I dreaming?
“This can’t be possible”. I quoted to myself.
I continued to stand in the pouring rain. I was too terrified to return to my house. I ran up stream to find the girl who had seen it as well. I searched everywhere. I couldn’t find the girl. My heart was pounding uncontrollably. A cold sweat ran down my back. Goosebumps were quickly covering my body. I landed on my hands and knees as I couldn’t stand anymore. I was getting pounded by the rain and I didn’t care. I was determined to not show my face in that house again. Tears ran down my face as the thing returned. This time it wasn’t afraid of the rain. It shifted through the rain so quick, I doubt it was even getting hit by the rain. I felt my neck tighten and I couldn’t breathe. That’s when I notice I was in its grip.

“Let me go!” I screamed with horror in my voice.
I tried to grab it but my hands ran through it. The thing was like a black ghost. I couldn’t touch it. I tried to kick it this time and again my kick when through it. What in the world is this thing? I continued to ask myself whiling kicking and screaming for my freedom from its grip. Somehow this thing could grab me, but I couldn’t touch it. My hands just ran through it. In my mind I knew I wasn’t going to survive this encounter. But my inner self wouldn’t let me quit. I knew this thing had to have a weakness to it. Like every monster or mutated human did. But this was neither a monster, nor a human. It was just a thing.
I tighten my eyes shut, and tried to wiggle myself free. Oxygen was becoming limited now. I couldn’t take it anymore, my lungs were burning. Every breathe I took was like swallowing sand paper down my throat. The thing finally let me go by throwing me against the ground. I quickly got up and began to sprint as fast as I could. I didn’t care which way I was running, I just knew anywhere would be better than here. The thing quickly began to dash over to me. Just then I saw a parked truck and I slid under the truck. The thing collided against the truck, making the car alarm to go off. I continue to sprint. The thing recuperated and dashed towards me faster than before. Anger was now fueling it. I knew I didn’t stand a chance in this race for my life. Even the four years of track at high school wouldn’t help me now. The thing quickly catch up to me and speared me against the ground. It grabbed me by my neck and pulled me up. I was in its grips again.
The thing let go of my neck and grabbed me by my shoulders with both of its arms. It took me and pushed me towards its black body. I tried to avoid it at all cost. But my fight was futile. My world turned black. Solid black.

Im not finish yet. But is it a good start?
I made up a city and put it on a random state lol. And I thought of how I could make it flow from the patio to the street but i couldn’t think of a way that would make sense to me. But thanks for the tips.

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Primary mortgage insurance makes it possible for lenders to “cover their assets” so lending without it is risky. The PMI rates dropped after appreciation was deemed to have returned to the market. Insurance companies tend to shy away from insuring houses in a market that the end value may be lower than the insured price. This is a recipe for catastrophe for not only insurance corporations, but loan groups as well. When this was the case in the Boise Idaho real estate arena, just about every lender was in full retreat from completing home loans in this area.

In an effort to prevent losing any advantage they may have, banks and insurance companies tend to minimize involvement in endeavors that may create some exposure on their part. In times of depreciation, many banks simply vary their guidelines for allowing loans, which decelerates the rate of lending in depreciating marketplaces. In circumstances that markets are depreciating the way the Boise Idaho real estate market was, many closings and transactions simply do not go through.

Trying to keep up with a falling market is financially deadly, so banks avoid them with all of their effort. It seems like this is chaos but the depreciating market is simply getting back into balance. Investors and buyers in the Boise Idaho real estate market use these kinds of times to position themselves to buy. To add some incentive for homeowners to keep their homes, many banks and even the government are introducing programs that grant loan modifications. This is done in an attempt to provide a way homeowners can retain their homes by reducing the payments through principle decreases or interest decreases.

After factoring in all the pressures that are extending and changing the real estate marketplace here, you can consider that the conclusion of the real estate crisis is at last getting closer. In Time investors will again put their dollars into rentals and land purchases to protect and produce wealth.

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There’s not any denial of the fact that selling out property is no easy task. Numerous number of people around you are trying hard and putting in their best tries to sell of their properties. When there are abounding properties are all prepared for sale, it is sort of plain that selling your own can become quite frightening. Do not fret as it is not an unattainable task either. Let’s take a look at some measures that will simply help the selling of your property at the earliest best.

A really easy and effective way to sell off your property is to engage an auctioneer for sale. It is suggested that you want to auction off your property when you aren’t especially sure of the cost. The auctioneer will take all responsibility of the proper disposal of your property. He will organize the bid, invite potential bidders and of course conduct the exact auction. You don’t need to become concerned in the entire turkey shoot at any time of time. The main catch with a property auction is that in some cases, it does not render the most accurate price for property being put on auction.

Another measure that proves beneficial in this direction is to go in for online selling. It is in fact the quickest way to sell off your property. When it comes to online selling countless portals come to your help. However,exercise caution when you zero in on a selected web site. The reason for this is that there are many duplicitous sites who can make wrong use of the information as offered by you. To avoid such a thing, it is in your interest to go through the testimonial and the referrals of the purchasers who have availed the services of the internet sites. If you believe that the web site is deserving of trust, there’s no harm in giving out details of the property you are considering to sell off.

Be watchful of your property margin. This is a particularly necessary criterion which you would like to reduce a bit if you are in a rush to do away with the property. For this it is first important to know in details of the appraised value of your property. The following step is to add on a reasonable profit margin to the appraised value. It is understood to all that more is you margin, less people will be keen to buy your property. So it is in your interest to lessen the profit opening and sell off the property at a fair rate. This could guarantee a straightforward selling of your property and that too at the earliest best practical. The most important thing is that you’ll have to settle in for a lower profit.

Yet another necessary account for selling your property is the condition the property is in. It’s been noted that if the property is in a good and perfect condition, it raises the chance of its selling to a significant extent. Well naturally you need to shell out money for the renovations done. But it will fetch you great results in the long run. A lot many people would like to opt in for properties that are all set and all ready to be used. So ensure that property is in good shape and you are bound to fetch more purchasers.

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Reports indicate that the economy is turning around based on the evidence of a 5.9% increase in GDP and increased business investment reports. As the recession eases Boise real estate will be helped out by the positive news.

With the Commerce Department using fourth quarter numbers to project a sound 5.7% increase in GDP, many onlookers were pleasantly surprised to see the actual numbers slightly higher at 5.9%. It was still the fastest pace since the third quarter of 2003. Posting an impressive 2.2% increase, the third quarter led all to date. If we go back to the 2003 number the Boise real estate market would be on solid footing.

Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast GDP, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, growing at a 5.7% rate in the October-December period. While the economy rebounded strongly in the second half of 2009 from the worst downturn since the 1930s, data so far suggests the rapid rate of acceleration slowed somewhat in the first quarter of 2010. Even thought consumer spending and the housing markets were down, the fact that businesses increased investment in software and equipment helped add some steadiness to the economy and allowed business to liquidate bloated inventories. Being part of the fabric of the national economy, Boise real estate definitely had similar results.

Demand remains low as indicated by the reduction in actual growth of 1.9% from the projected growth of 2.2%, which reduced inventories and brought some balance back. Inventory values were adjusted down from $33.5 billion initially, to $16.9 in the fourth quarter. They dropped $139.2 billion in the July-September period. The Gross Domestic Product was increased by 3.88% simply by the difference in inventory in that quarter. This was the biggest percentage contribution since the fourth quarter of 1987. With so many suppliers eliminating excess inventory, builders in the Boise real estate market were helped out.

Not since the U.S. economy was recovering from World War II, in 1946, has it experienced the substantial drop in GDP of 2.4%. Even consumer spending projections had to be adjusted downward from 2% in January to the actual number of 1.7% increase. That was below the 2.8% rate in the prior quarter when consumption got a boost from the government’s “cash for clunkers” auto purchase program. A huge block of our economy normally comes from consumer spending, around 70%, but in the fourth quarter of 2009 it only added a minuscule 1.23%. In such a financial crisis, the Boise real estate market is not independent of the national trends.

With spending on commercial real estate heading down quickly, the fact that the growth happened at all was due mostly because of equipment purchases and investment in software necessary for business growth and improvement. With business investment being much higher than the projected 2.9%, at 6.5% actually, improvement is on the way. In just the three months prior, it had slumped by just under 6%. With everyone watching the housing markets, projections of 5.7% were down graded to about 5% in the fourth quarter. In the third quarter it had posted a tremendous 18.9%. Both exports and imports grew much stronger than initially estimated in the fourth quarter, leaving a trade gap that contributed 0.3 percentage point to GDP growth, the data showed. As GDP indicates our national economic states, Boise real estate eagerly awaits is significant turn around.

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JANESVILLE, Wis. – In the early dawn, after another week building cars, Michael Hanley leaves his job in Kansas. He quickly zips into Missouri, then heads up a ribbon of highway past grain silos and grazing deer, across the frozen fields of Iowa, over the Mississippi River and into the rolling hills of Wisconsin. Finally, he pulls into his driveway — 530 miles later.

It’s one heck of a haul: more than 1,000 miles roundtrip, 16-plus hours of driving, every week.

“I like to say I gave up an eight-minute commute for an eight-hour commute,” he says wearily, running a hand though salt-and-pepper hair as he watches his two sons play basketball for the first time this season.

After the aging General Motors plant where he worked for 23 years was idled about a year ago, Hanley faced a Hobson’s choice: Stay with his family and search for an autoworker’s salary ($28 an hour) in a county where more than 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs disappeared from 2006 to 2009. Or hang on to his GM paycheck and health insurance and follow the job, no matter where it leads.

In his case, it led to Fairfax, Kan., the same place his brother and two brothers-in-law — also GM workers, and now his roommates — landed. For others, it has been Indiana or Texas.

The long commute is not just a story of hard times, tough choices and a shrinking American auto industry. It’s also a case study of what happens when an aging industrial town loses an anchor, when workers too old to start over and too young to retire are caught in a squeeze and when economic survival means one family, but two far-flung ZIP codes.

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Hanley is not one to complain.

“GM has been good for us,” he says. “This whole town knows that.”

For 90 years, the sprawling plant — it started out building tractors — became a different kind of family business. Through the decades, sons followed fathers onto the line, sometimes rubbing shoulders as they built Chevy Cavaliers, Caprices, Tahoes, Suburbans and more.

Hanley’s father and brother worked there. So did his father-in-law, two brothers-in-law and an assortment of uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.

But as GM’s financial troubles mounted, car and SUV sales fell and gas prices climbed, the automaker closed several plants, eliminating thousands of jobs.

Janesville — then the oldest of GM assembly plants — ended production of SUVs in December 2008, months before the automaker received billions of dollars in government loans and filed for bankruptcy. (The factory is on standby status; some hold out hope it will reopen one day.)

Some of about 1,200 remaining workers took buyouts or retired; some began new careers. Hundreds more stayed with GM, relocating, commuting or just waiting for an opening. The automaker has about 6,500 laid-off workers nationwide.

Even before the doors closed, Hanley began preparing for life after GM. He returned to college to complete two credits he needed for an accounting degree, but an offer in Kansas came first.

He didn’t hesitate. Auto work these days is like playing musical chairs. You grab an opening where you can.

Hanley didn’t want to lose his health insurance while his wife, Laura, was receiving costly chemotherapy treatments for a blood disease that will likely lead to cancer. The medical bills last year, she says, were in the tens of thousands of dollars.

“There’s no way I could possibly go through one treatment without him having insurance,” she says.

Like many other divided GM families, the Hanleys decided even though the job was important, there were reasons not to uproot everyone: Laura works at their sons’ Catholic school, the boys are immersed in band, Scouts, basketball and church, and the sale of a house was an iffy and perhaps money-losing proposition.

Hanley knew it would be a trade-off — financial security for a lonely existence.

His eyes mist as he talks about what he misses: dinner with his family, coaching basketball, going to the YMCA with his boys, wrestling with them at night, attending their concerts and games, watching them grow up.

“It’s an adjustment, not being home,” he says. “I probably sounded cruel because I said I wouldn’t miss my wife as much because she’s going to be there when I come back, when I retire. But those years with the kids aren’t going to be there. That’s the hard part, not being able to be around them. … I don’t know if I really appreciated it before.”

Hanley plans to commute another 18 months, until he turns 50, hoping for a retirement package then — something, he says, he “prays about every night.”

Laura, meanwhile, does double duty as a single parent. It’s all overwhelming — working, shuttling her sons around, keeping an eye on her elderly mother and worrying about her husband’s long commutes.

“The kids are tired of seeing mom cry because she’s stressed and seeing dad cry when he needs to go back to work,” she says. “We’re really close — the four of us. You can’t talk to

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Resolved Question: What is the advatages of living on a island in the middle of a river in America? Found one for sale on-line?
it’s 56 acres big and it can only be reached by boat. it’s been logged of all it’s trees but a few on one end and has what’s left of one small log cabin and a boat landing next to them. also to get to it you drive down dirt roads for 5 miles on one side and 1/2 miles other side.on one side I’ve been told a bridge could be built but it would be much better to just use a boat and build dock/garage on the main land side. best of all the owner only wants $12,000 for it.

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Resolved Question: what is the value of an 1980 Glasstream bass boat? ( what would you pay?)?
The outboard motor on the transom is a 60HP Johnson Evinrude Triumph. The sale would include the bow mounted, foot controlled trolling motor along with a nearly brand new Minn Kota transom mount trolling motor as well. Some of the other extras would be the Eagle Fish Finder, 18lb river anchor with rope, life vests, Transom prop for motor while in transport, tie downs, side bumpers for docking, the dog ear setup for land running and a couple other things. Some of the work done is as follows: New pressure treated plywood decking, new carpet, new live well pump and bilge pump, new gas tank and fuel lines, new battery, new wiring on boat and trailer to include new lighting on trailer, new water lines for pumps, new plugs in motor, new distributor in motor, new fuel pump on motor, new bearing buddies on trailer wheels. I wanna know what you would pay for this?

thank you for answering.

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There are a lot of different things to take into account when looking for cheap auto insurance quotes. It is never a good idea to get stuck on one company though as every situation is different. To find the best quotes, get online and get quotes from a variety of companies. However, before you do that, take the time to find out some of the different things that affect rates.

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Finance and investment field is quite a tough one to understand. We all really need to work hard in order to be successful in this field. I can assure you one thing that only a skilled and trained professional can prosper in this field. Further in this topic we are going to talk about home mortgage in detail. Before delving further into the topic, we are going to talk about mortgage. Well, a specific loan on a property, land or construction that has to be repaid before the desired time period.

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Sash windows will commonly be found on houses that are between 60 and 500 years old. These sorts of windows are defined by being usually very drafty within these older houses. As such the best thing that you can do is get sash windows that are double glazed. This will offer up several distinct advantages over the older windows that you had installed.

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