(05.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”We have not…

(05.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”We have not sought to extend our territorial possessions by conquest, or our republican institutions over a reluctant people. It was the deliberate homage of each people to the great principle of our federative union. If we consider the extent of territory involved in the annexation, its prospective influence on America, the means by which it has been accomplished, springing purely from the choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union, the history of the world may be challenged to furnish a parallel…We may rejoice that the tranquil and pervading influence of the American principle of self-government was sufficient to defeat the purposes of British and French interference…From this example European Governments may learn how vain diplomatic arts and intrigues must ever prove upon this continent against that system of self-government which seems natural to our soil, and which will ever resist foreign interference.”Source: James Polk, from the State of the Union Address, December 2, 1845The ideas expressed in Polk’s State of the Union Address most directly support the growing sense of

(01.01 MC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”The…

(01.01 MC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”They neither care nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron, some of them having a fish’s tooth at the end, and others being pointed in various ways…I was attentive, and took trouble to ascertain if there was gold. I saw that some of them had a small piece fastened in a hole they have in the nose, and by signs I was able to make out that to the south, or going from the island to the south, there was a king who had great cups full, and who possessed a great quantity.”Source: Christopher Columbus, from his journal entries dated 12–14 October, 1492Reports such as Columbus’s encouraged the European powers to

(01.03 HC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”The…

(01.03 HC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”The kindness of the seventh day,Never to leave the king,The worshiper of the father,The worshiper of the god,The worshiper of the savior,The father savior;Without a hearth,We ourselves make ourselves Children of Obatala*.”*In Yoruba traditional religions, the god Obatala created Earth and human beings.Source: Traditional African-Brazilian Folk SongThe song excerpt reflects the concept of syncretism by showing that