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Francisco Pizarro
After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca.
Governor J. Howard Edmondson attempted to reform the (B) county commissioner system of postwar Oklahoma.
J. Howard Edmondson was the governor of Oklahoma from 1959 to 1963 and he was also a United States Senator. Moreover, Edmondson was part of the Democratic Party. While he governed Oklahoma, he proposed several changes. One of them was the reform of the county commissioner system: <u>he intended to form a constitutional highway commission and to reduce the control that county commissioners had over gasoline tax revenues</u>. In other words, he sought to reduce the power of county commissioners and to give more responsibilities to the State Highway Commission when it came to controlling funds.
As the scope of responsibilities of the President of the United States increased during the 20th century, the Vice-President came to be relied upon to handle greater responsibilities also.
A 21st century Vice-President, Joe Biden, said it well: “The way the world has changed, the breadth and the scope of the responsibility an American president has virtually requires a vice president to handle serious assignments, just because the president’s plate is so very full." Biden was quoted in the book, The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power, published by Smithsonian Books in 2014.
Another point might be made about 20th century Vice-Presidents -- especially in the latter half of the century. A number of Vice-Presidents became President because of things that happened to the President. . President Franklin Roosevelt died while in office, and was succeeded by his Vice-President, Harry Truman (in 1945). Vice-President Lyndon Johnson became President when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Gerald Ford rose from Vice-President to President when Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment.
In the current situation of American politics, with partisan politics strongly dividing Congress, Vice-President Mike Pence has functioned a number of times as the tie-breaking vote in the Senate on important matters -- another way the Vice-Presidency has taken on greater responsibility lately.
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1. Which of the following common European dishes would be impossible to make without goods imported from the Americas during the Columbian Exchange?
C. Tomato sauce and pasta
2. What factors were significant in the decline of both the Mali and Songhai empires?
D. Civil war of succession, and invasions by neighboring countries
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