The Erie Canal cut shipping costs over its route by such substantial percentages as to make canal shipping more economical for farmers, for example, than wagon trains.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: T
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A) Andrei Sakharov B) Simone de Beauvoir C) Maria Wislawa Szymborska D) Édith Piaf
What was the importance of the Peace of Augsburg?
A) It allowed the imperial princes of northern and central Europe to choose either Lutheranism or Catholicism. B) It established the supremacy of the papacy. C) It created a unified central Europe. D) It ended the sporadic warfare between England and France. E) all of the above.
The religious revivals of the 1740s through 1770s
a. led to a decline in the number of female church members. b. almost destroyed the Freemasons. c. united all the major colonial churches into one interdenominational organization. d. increased the size and strength of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches. e. converted most of the Indians in the colonies.
By 1880, persons of Chinese descent made up over half of California's farm workers.
a. true b. false