The key to the growth of agribusiness in the West was
a. the abundance of water.
b. intensive use of heavy machinery.
c. high land prices.
d. the extension of existing agribusiness operations from the East.
ANSWER: b
You might also like to view...
A disastrous move ordered by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War was:
A) his advance toward Washington, D.C. during the Seven Days' Battles. B) his decision to move into Pennsylvania to relieve the Virginians who had been in the midst of so much of the fighting. C) the Battle of Antietam, where Lee had overextended his forces into Maryland and was forced into a retreat. D) his order to break the Union line at Gettysburg with a charge involving 12,500 men-two-thirds of whom were killed, wounded, or captured. E) leading Grant on a military chase that lasted for weeks and eventually put Lee's men in trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, for nine long, miserable months.
What was a major impact of the Alger Hiss case?
A) Several other high-ranking officials of the Roosevelt administration were investigated. B) Whittaker Chambers was also tried and convicted of perjury. C) It catapulted Richard Nixon into the national spotlight. D) It cast suspicions upon the Eisenhower administration for the first time. E) Hiss was discovered to be a former Nazi as well as a Soviet spy.
The five principle colonial cities that emerged before 1750 were
A. Boston, Philadelphia, Newport, New York, and Charleston. B. Boston, Hartford, Newport, New York, and Charleston. C. Boston, Philadelphia, Alexandria, New York, and Charleston. D. Boston, Williamsburg, Newport, New York, and Charleston.
In North Carolina, spearheaded by the Scots-Irish, a small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony's affair was known as
a. Bacon's Rebellion. b. March of the Paxton Boys. c. Regulator Movement. d. Shays' Rebellion. e. Whiskey Rebellion.