Boston merchant Francis Cabot Lowell, who was hit hard by Jefferson's embargo,
a. perfected a machine to put soles on shoes
b. invented a candle making machine
c. built a new power loom for weaving cloth
d. opened a cotton-spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
C
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Recent archeological investigations suggest that crop cultivation in Africa
A) began first in Egypt and other parts of the upper Nile, from which it diffused into other parts of the continent. B) was introduced by Muslims. C) began independently in Ethiopia, the West African savanna, the central Sudan, and the upper Niger. D) first developed in the kingdoms of the western Sudan. E) failed to develop until recently.
Charles Darwin applied the principle of evolution by natural selection to humans in his book ________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Scholars devoted to Hermeticism
A) believed that the world was a very recent and still imperfect creation. B) credited the devil with control over the dark secrets of nature. C) saw the world as a living embodiment of divinity where humans could use mathematics and magic to dominate nature. D) retreated from study of the natural world to concentrate on mastery of theories of magic. E) All of these are correct.
The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between the
a. forty-second parallel and the Columbia River. b. Cascade Mountains, the Columbia River, and Puget Sound. c. 36° 30' line and the Columbia River. d. forty-ninth parallel and the 54° 40' line. e. Columbia River, the forty-ninth parallel, and the Pacific Ocean.