Isaac Singer transformed American society by
A) designing a practical sanitation system that enabled cities to clean up their streets.
B) patenting a practical sewing machine that allowed for the mass production of textiles.
C) organizing inventors into specific groups which allowed them to work on projects together.
D) introducing science into farms and showed how healthier animals and larger crop yields could be produced.
E) persuading Congress to create the National Academy of Sciences.
B
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A) pestilence. B) high tax rates. C) an emphasis on the aristocracy. D) an increase in the number of literate farmers. E) the publication of the world?s first novel.
Why did President Hoover do very little during the Great Depression to alleviate poverty?
A) He was actually a very active president, but Congress refused to pass the huge variety of relief programs he proposed. B) He believed that government, when it acted, should help only the wealthy and big businesses. C) He strongly believed that individuals or charities, not the government, should help alleviate poverty. D) Hoover was president for only the first few months of the Great Depression.
The success of the Bolshevik coup of November 6 was surprising, given the group's _________.
A. previous failure to gain power B. association with the tsarist government C. criminal status D. decline in the early 1910s
The Massachusetts colony was founded primarily to show the world how a proper _________ society should be.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).