This is a form of municipal legislature, still seen in some new england states, where an entire local group of people are able to participate in the creation of local governing policies.

List three reasons why explorers began to explore new, and old areas. [[ps: doesn't explicitly say where. i think it's more in general.

“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

Was the battle of iwo jima over after us troops raised the flag on mt. suribachi?