LALEIP TIL Bandini and Warren
"Sir Francis Drake," says the old chronicle, 'was the first Englishman to sail on the back side of America,' and from that time until
now California has been considered the back door of the country. This was natural because the first settlements in the United
States were along the Atlantic seacoast. The people who came from England kept their faces turned eastward, looking to the
Mother Country for help, and watching Europe, and later England herself, as a quarter from which danger might come, as indeed
it did in the war of the Revolution and that of 1812.
President Roosevelt in 1907 took a decided step in recognizing the importance of the Pacific when he sent to that coast so large
a number of the most modern vessels of the navy. In fact, the nation may now be said to have faced about, California becoming
the front door of our country
The author uses the metaphor of doors to symbolize
A)
the east and west coasts of America,
B)
the attitude people have about California.
the process of people fleeing persecution
D)
the age of exploration and discovery of the New World,
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