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[单项选择]Legend has it that sometime toward the Civil War (1861 -1865) a government train carrying oxen traveling through the northern plains of eastern Wyoming was caught in a snowstorm and had to be abandoned. The driver returned the next spring to see what had become of his cargo. Instead of the skeletons he had expected to find, he saw his oxen, living, fat, and healthy. How had they survived
The answer lay in a resource that unknowing Americans had trampled underfoot in their haste to cross the "Great American Desert" to reach lands that sometimes proved barren. In the eastern parts of the United States, the preferred grass for forage was as cultivated plant. It grew well with enough rain, then when cut and stored it would cure and become nourishing hay for winter feed. But in the dry grazing lands of the west, that familiar bluejoint grass was often killed by drought. To raise cattle out there seemed risky or even hopeless.
Who could imagine a fairy-tale grass that requir
A. Western migration after the Civil War.
B. The raising of cattle.
C. A type of wild vegetation.
D. The climate of the western United States.
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The Decision that Led to Civil War
Four years before the Civil War began, the first shots were fired -- not on a battlefield, but in the Supreme Court. This occurred in 1857, when the Court considered a crucial question: should a slave living in a free state be considered free
The Court’s answer to this question was no, and it sent shock waves through every state, slave and free alike. According to the ruling, which became known as the Dred Scott decision, a slave would always be regarded as property, no matter where he or she happened to be.
When the case began, Virginia-born Dred Scott had spent all of his fifty-one years in slavery. He had been owned by a St. Louis family, which had sold him to a local army surgeon. The doctor then took Scott from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois and later to the free territory of Wisconsin. Scott was then taken back to Missouri by his owner, who died there.
[单项选择]The period from 1780 to the Civil War was marked by a tremendous increase in the number of higher-education institutions, the rise of the state university, the creation of scientific and technological schools and departments, and the beginning of higher education for women.
Of the 182 permanent colleges founded before the Civil War, 17 were in Ohio, 16 in Pennsylvania, and 15 in New York. West of the Mississippi River the fast permanent colleges founded were St Louis University, 1818, and the College of Louisiana (now called Centenary College), 1825; in the Northwest, Williamette University, Oregon, 1842; and in the Southwest, California Wesleyan College (now College of the Pacific), 1851.
How many permanent colleges were established before the Civil War
A. 48
B. 41
C. 182
D. 33
[单项选择]How long has the civil war been going on for
A．Almost one year. B．Just over a year.
C．A year and half. D．Two years.
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American civil war
Historians of the war can be divided into two schools. The first considers that it was the unavoidable outcome of conflicting
(51) between Northern and Southern
(52) . The second blames it
(53) political leaders for
(54) to avert an unnecessary war.A. farms B. plantations C. reserves D. states
