In the 1700s, explorers and missionaries built a chain of (1) in California. They wanted to convert Native Americans to (2) . When Mexico won its independence from (3) , California became a (4) in the new nation. Mexican settlers set up large estates called (5) . (6) worked on the ranchos. The owners, or (7) , treated them almost as (8) . In the 1840s, more Americans came to (9) . They were attracted by the mild (10) and the rich natural (11) . Many Americans thought that California should become a (12) . They wanted the United States to reach the (13) Ocean

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The idea of liberalism in eighteenth-century british politics: a. had mainly a civic and social quality. b. prompted two eighteenth-century leaders, joseph mccarthy and hugh mccarran, to demand independence for ireland. c. brought great wealth and power to its main voice, john locke. d. was compatible with inequalities in wealth and well-being. e. had the same meaning as liberalism in twenty-first-century american politics.

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?