Which group made huge profits during the Gold Rush?

The largest city in brazil, sao paulo, has a population of about 11 million. based on the rank-size rule, what is the population of the second-largest city, rio de janeiro, most likely to be? a. 8 – 10 million b. 5 – 6 million c. about 3 million d. about 1 million

Why did roosevelt support a “europe first” strategy even though it had been japan that had first attacked the united states?

“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