Barbed wire was invented by
A) Joseph F. Glidden.
B) Joseph G. McCoy.
C) Walter Prescott Webb.
D) S. D. Butcher.
A
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The writings of Kautilya, like those of ________, served to support imperial power
A) Plato B) Sophocles C) Mencius D) Shang Yang
Initially, George Washington discouraged the presence of women among the troops because
A) ?he did not want to endanger women. B) ?women were more vulnerable and likely to be taken as prisoners of war. C) ?he believed it would encourage immorality and prostitution. D) ?he believed women were more vulnerable to disease, which ran rampant in army camps. E) ?he did not want the extra burden of having to feed women accompanying his troops.
In the years following 1532, colonization in Brazil was in the hands of the minor Portuguese nobles granted strips of land called
A) consulados. B) captaincies. C) propietary colonies. D) mitas.
The Panic of 1873
A. saw Republicans call on Grant to go off the gold standard. B. began after the Southern crop-lien system collapsed. C. was the nation's worst economic depression to that time. D. began after revelations of corruption in the Grant administration. E. saw President Grant favor putting more paper currency into circulation.