MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Question
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Read the following passage from the text:"Soon, news of the fortunes being made in California was spreading wide and far. A wave of fortune-hunters began to arrive. At first, they mostly came by boat from such places as Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, Chile, Peru and even China. Only later would the news reach the East Coast."Of the places listed below, where would you least expect fortune-hunters to travel from towards the beginning of the Gold Rush?
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The western coast of the United States
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Northern territories in Mexico
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South America
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Florida
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Question 2, “Which of the following events mentioned in the passage happened first chronologically?” The answer is “The narrator leapt out over the diving well in late September.”
Detailed explanation-2: -The passage directly compares the Milky Way’s disk as it is affected by its warp to: pizza dough being spun in the air by a chef.
Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer is “open-ended questions and appeals directed to readers” because we see the author asking questions to the reader throughout the passage.
Detailed explanation-4: -Question 33, Which choice most closely maintains the sentence pattern…”. The correct answer is “NO CHANGE”. This question falls under the category of Knowledge of Language.
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