What event contributed to California's increasing importance in world trade?
a. The opening of the Suez Canal
b. The opening of the Panama Canal
c. The opening of the Panama Pacific Rim International Port in San Francisco
d. The creation of the Sunkist brand of oranges
b
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During the Revolution, women
A) made themselves useful in many capacities. B) shrank from taking any active part. C) were predominantly loyalists. D) were forbidden from taking active role in the war.
Guglielmo Marconi
a. invented new forms of steel. b. sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic. c. created a highly efficient generator. d. is best known for his contributions in the field of transportation. e. was a key player in the drive for Italian unification.
With regard to sexual relations between white men and enslaved women in the antebellum South, white southern women
A. increasingly spoke out against such liaisons in the 1830s and 1840s B. were supposed to pretend that they did not notice C. actively sought passage of laws against interracial sexual relations D. usually placed the blame for such relationships on the enslaved women
The crop that became the most important agricultural product in the New World after about 5000 B.C.E. was
A) wheat. B) maize. C) barley. D) yams. E) rice.