If you were the head of a young family on the East Coast in 1843, do you think you
would have chosen to emigrate west, using
the Oregon Trail? Why or why not?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What does the document of the birtish octopus is an uderlying cause of the world war 1

Why did the paris peace conference negotiations last over a year?