What was the purpose of sunday laws in the southwest?
a. ban certain cultural activities that were common in hispanic communities
b. allow police to put hispanic citizens in jail for being homeless
c. force chinese immigrants to pay extra taxes to mine
d. allow white settlers to start anti-chinese groups

The purpose of Sunday laws in the southwest was to ban certain cultural activities that were common in Hispanic communities.  

Option A

Explanation:

The Sunday Laws were framed and implemented in order to promote and nurture the habit of citizens to carry out more religious activities by keeping aside what they usually did to make a living.

Some cultural activities that were performed by the Hispanic communities were identified by this law as not in line with religious activities, and hence, they were banned.

(d) rivers.

explanation:

civilizations developed around rivers because their waters provided places to hunt and fish. also, as the rivers flooded, the lands around them became fertile. this allowed them to support farming. this is especially true of the nile river, which flooded the same time each year.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.