The development of the reaper in 1831 by _____ was the most significant industrial development in agriculture
A) James Tallmadge
B) Eli Whitney
C) Samuel Morse
D) Cyrus McCormick
E) Francis Lowell
D
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The Stono Rebellion terrified slave masters throughout the British colonies for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) it demonstrated the significant influence the Spanish offer of freedom for American slaves who escaped to South Florida. B) the scope of this slave rebellion and the level of its deadly violence were unprecedented in North American history. C) it required sending out the South Carolina militia to stop the armed slaves who killed whites trying to halt their march to freedom. D) colonial governments appeared unwilling and unable to take any legal steps to curtail the development of other slave revolts throughout the colonies.
By the end of the 20th century, the labor movement
a. successfully organized office, restaurant, and hotel workers under the leadership of the AFL-CIO b. suffered because of the high unemployment rate. c. lost political power as union membership declined to less than 13 percent. d. failed to organize government employees and health-care workers. e. excluded women.
The Mexica used a combination of pictures which used images to represent something with the same sound - a writing system which was
a. copied from the Maya. b. a type of rebus writing. c. purely pictographic. d. not associated with sound. e. not associated with grammar and spelling.
Who forced the Umayyads out of Spain by 1492?
a. Abbasids b. Normans c. Spanish Christians d. Fatimids e. Persians