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Westward, ho! We’ve got some wild, wild trivia for ya here, you're darn tootin’.

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00:03

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by pioneering spirit.

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It's defined as the willingness to endure for the sake of exploration. [pioneer faces bear]

00:11

Sounds like a lot of effort... we would have just stayed in bed. All right, check

00:14

out the excerpt. "It appears..." [excerpt shown]

00:18

All right, here's our question: The trend described in the excerpt reflects which of the [question shown]

00:22

following developments? And here your potential answers... [answers shown]

00:27

Well, this excerpt is about Americans and exploring the Wild West. A bold move, [Pioneer and Native American fight]

00:32

seeing as people were already living there. The urge to go west was definitely

00:36

not limited to privileged groups like A suggests, so we know this isn't our answer. [A ruled out]

00:40

A lot of folks who headed west were actually hanging out on the bottom rung

00:43

of settler society and went west looking for something better... probably In-N-Out. [poor settlers pictured]

00:48

And you definitely need some serious motivation to go deal with hungry bears,

00:51

hostile American Indians, threat of starvation, and nasty diseases. Well, maybe [pioneer fights off threats]

00:56

that motivation was animal style fries, or maybe some just didn't know what they

01:01

were getting themselves into. C tells us that westward expansion created

01:05

culturally homogenous communities, which

01:07

means communities made up of the same [homogenous community shown]

01:08

kinds of people. This isn't true. Lots of different kinds of people headed west, [C ruled out]

01:12

from recent European immigrants to people whose families had been in North

01:15

America since the colonial days, and when all these people started hobnobbing out [diverse group of people]

01:20

west, well, totally new and diverse cultures began to flower. We'd like to [unsettling clown family]

01:24

tell you choice D is true--that when all the diverse cultures met out west, they [D ruled out]

01:28

created a magical happy land where everybody got along. We'd also like to [people eat peacefully]

01:33

tell you that we found the answer to world peace and the cure for all disease,

01:36

but we can't. The West was full of social and ethnic tension, just like everywhere [people jumping with flags]

01:40

else in the world. Maybe one day, we'll figure out how to achieve that magical

01:44

happy land. All right, well, the correct answer is B. As the excerpt tells us, all [rainbow utopia]

01:48

types of Americans were heading west. The key word here is "inherent." The author is

01:52

making the claim that all Americans just naturally wanted to enlarge their [B chosen as correct answer]

01:57

dominion. In other words, it's a universal trend... like eating In-N-Out for every [people want to expand]

02:02

meal. That might just be an us trend, come to think of it... yeah. [people at In-N-Out]

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