What was the major advantage of Westinghouse's "alternating current" power invention?
A. It was less prone to fire.
B. It cost less to produce.
C. It allowed machines to be farther from the power source.
D. It was not under Edison's control
Ans: C. It allowed machines to be farther from the power source.
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a. Most indigenous peoples in Brazil were nomadic. b. Slaves were more likely to be imported from Africa. c. There was less reliance on slave labor. d. there was less direct administration from the homeland.
Comte's system of positivism embraced modernity by
a. arguing that humans were indeed the product of evolution, and by virtue of their success, Europeans were superior in the world. b. posing three phases of human development, with the last phase (modern) embracing science and quantitative methods for proving social theory. c. rejecting the artifice of Romanticism and returning instead to the values of the Enlightenment. d. cataloguing human accomplishments by degrees of technology. e. none of these methods.
The major economic problem facing President Nixon when he took office in 1969 was
A) large-scale employment. B) an increasing trade deficit. C) runaway inflation. D) a deepening recession.
The _________ was a political party of the 1890s that championed the "farm" cause of land and crops over the powers of banking and credit. a. Libertarian Party B. Democratic Party C. Republican Party D. Populist Party
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