Why did Congress approve the National Defense Education Act?

An Initiative that allocated federal money for the education of U.S. Veterans. An act passed by congress to give federal dollars to support the improvement of science, math, and foreign language instruction, so that the U.S. could compete with the Soviet Union in scientific and technical fields.

the completion of the erie canal spurred the first great westward movement of american settlers, gave access to the rich land and resources west of the appalachians and made new york the preeminent commercial city in the united states.

map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. for example, on a 1: 100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground.