Which of the following statements regarding the use of steamboats is most accurate?
A) ?The War of 1812 sped up the construction of steamboats so that the United States could gain control of the Mississippi River.
B) ?Steamboats cut the time for a trip from New Orleans to Louisville to only thirty days.
C) ?Steamboats encouraged the growth of towns and villages along the rivers.
D) ?Early steamboats had extremely good safety records.
E) ?Steamboats were more successful than railroads in transporting goods across long distances.
C
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a. fear that the Articles of Confederation had created too strong a national government for the United States. b. efforts by wealthy merchants to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution. c. a quarrel over the boundary between Massachusetts and Vermont. d. foreclosures on the mortgages of debt-strapped backcountry farmers. e. the government's failure to pay bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.
In the seventeenth century, most blacks who came to the English colonies in North America came directly from Africa.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The white New York antislavery activist who donated a large tract of land for black settlement and then lived there was __________
A) Lewis Tappan B) William Lloyd Garrison C) Wendell Phillips D) Gerrit Smith
North American slaves seldom went into organized, armed revolt
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false