The invention of the cotton gin
A) provided a new way to bleach cotton cloth.
B) directly led to a rise in alcoholism.
C) meant that machines replaced slaves and slavery declined.
D) allowed spinners to produce more yarn.
E) had a negative effect on American cotton growers.
Ans: D
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a. supported the fundamentalist rejection of modernism. b. by far outnumbered fundamentalists. c. opposed evolution. d. supported William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes trial. e. believed in rational inquiry and social activism.
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A. They would have faith that society could be improved through human effort. B. They would be from the educated upper class. C. They would hold to a religion that believed human beings could, under a benevolent God, follow Jesus' moral teachings. D. They would understand knowledge as valuable for its own sake, independent of any practical usefulness.
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A. Democrat B. Know Nothing C. Republican D. Whig