Discuss the infrastructure improvements, in place by the middle of the nineteenth century, that gave merchants and manufacturers confidence to plan operations and estimate prices.
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What impact did the incident at Three Mile Island have on Carter's energy policy?
A) The giant oil spill dissuaded consumers from utilizing heating oil. B) The nuclear reactor malfunction soured the country on nuclear energy and no new nuclear plants were built. C) The prolonged worker strike at a solar panel plant on Three Mile Island meant that the government did not have any solar panels to sell and Carter had no choice but to abandon solar as an energy alternative. D) The gigantic natural gas explosion that killed dozens forced the United States to cease using natural gas as an energy source.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil might not have become such a big, important industry without the invention of the
a. Bessemer process. b. automobile. c. electric lightbulb. d. kerosene lamps. e. railroads.
In the aftermath of the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania,
A. Great Britain began an intensive campaign to build a submarine fleet. B. Germany pledged to the United States it would not repeat such an action. C. President Wilson prohibited Americans from traveling to Europe. D. the United States declared war on Germany. E. the United States began leasing its submarines to Great Britain.
Except for Czechoslovakia, the new states of eastern Europe were reliant on __________.
A. foreign loans B. American food shipments C. French military support D. Soviet support