JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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extracting natural resources in California
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policing dangerous streets in Northeast cities
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establishing small farms across the Great Plains
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introducing new textile innovations to the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -Of course, the biggest “pull” factor was opportunity. In the nineteenth century, some regions seemed to provide much opportunity. This pulled lots of voluntary migrants. Europeans, for example, saw the United States, Canada, and Latin America as having a lot of opportunity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chinese immigrants first flocked to the United States in the 1850s, eager to escape the economic chaos in China and to try their luck at the California gold rush. When the Gold Rush ended, Chinese Americans were considered cheap labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -With its triumph in the Mexican-American War, the United States seemingly realized its Manifest Destiny by gaining an immense domain (more than 525, 000 square miles [1, 360, 000 square km] of land), including present-day Arizona, California, western Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
Detailed explanation-4: -Signed into law by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, the Homestead Act encouraged westward migration and settlement by providing 160-acre tracts of land west of the Mississippi at little cost, in return for a promise to improve the land.