What was the greatest boost to the Industrial Revolution and the factories in Britain?
A) Efficient steam engines
B) Canal systems
C) Steam-powered looms
D) Coal-powered looms
E) The Jenny
A
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In 1956, the Soviet Red Army moved to end a student-worker revolt in Hungary because its leader threatened to
A) provoke an anticommunist revolution in neighboring Poland. B) provoke a direct confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. C) overthrow the Stalinist government there. D) withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact.
What was one result of yellow journalism stories about Cuba in the 1890s?
a. Americans believed Cubans were conspiring to control the Caribbean and were, therefore, reluctant to go to war to help them gain independence. b. Americans believed that Spain had a right to imperialist holdings in Cuba but that they should treat their colonies better. c. Americans became enraged about Spain's treatment of Cubans and the sinking of the U.S. Navy ship, the Maine. d. Cowardly journalists did not report Cuban atrocities for fear that the Spanish government would retaliate, hence the term "yellow journalism." e. Powerful Asian governments saw Cuba as the first step in a series of imperialist moves, so they sent journalists to the United States to spread rumors against intervention.
The practice of miniature plant display, or bonsai, was an expression of what practice?
A. Shinto beliefs B. Zen Buddhism C. Writing haiku D. Realism in art E. Chinese superiority of culture
Cotton became important to the prosperity of the North as well as the South because
a. about two-thirds of the southern cotton crop was sold to New England textile mills. b. northern merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton. c. cotton accounted for about half the value of all United States exports after 1840. d. northern farmers profited from selling their foodstuffs to feed southern slaves. e. northern investors controlled the cotton futures markets.