During the 1600s, coal was increasingly used
a. for refining sugar and salt.
b. for lighting.
c. for powering engines.
d. in China in place of wood.
a
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Which of the following is NOT true of the findings of the National Security Council Report 68?
A. The report was supported by President Truman, but opposed by Dean Acheson and George Kennan as too antagonistic to the Soviet Union. B. The report portrayed the Soviet Union as an apocalyptic global threat. C. Truman opposed the findings based on the cost, but changed his mind after communist North Korea invaded South Korea. D. The report proposed containing the spread of communism with a massive military buildup.
An ideology that figured significantly in the fall of the Brazilian Empire was
A) romanticism. B) positivism. C) laissez-faire economics. D) Marxism.
The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713
A. was a considerable victory for Spain in North America. B. transferred territory from the French to the English in North America. C. slowed England's western expansion of its American colonies. D. transferred territory from the English to the French in the Caribbean. E. ended King William's War.