Steamboats reduced the cost of transporting goods by river to approximately ____ per ton
a. one-third of a cent
b. one and half cents
c. five cents
d. seven cents
e. ten cents
a
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Ultimate power or sovereignty with regard to British colonial policy
a. was vested in the royal governor. b. was divided between the King and Parliament. c. belonged exclusively to Parliament. d. belonged exclusively to the local assemblies.
Which of the following represented effects of the Russo-Japanese War on the United States?
a. A new wave of Japanese immigrants began pouring into the spacious valleys of California b. White Californians began assailing the onset of new "yellow peril" represented by new Japanese immigrants to the state. c. A major diplomatic row developed between the United States and Japan over the San Francisco school board ordering the segregation of Japanese students in a special school to free more space for whites. d. A secret diplomatic agreement in 1907-1908 between the United States and Japan that stopped the flow of laborers to the U.S. mainland. e. A brief hostile naval encounter in 1907 between America's Great White Fleet and the Japanese navy in Tokyo Bay that nearly erupted into a shooting war between the two nations.
Why was the trip of Ibn Battuta significant for its time in history?
a. It was the longest known recorded trip by an individual before 1500. b. Ibn Battuta made the entire trip by water. c. The trip involved 75,000 miles, and he never left the Islamic Empire. d. He left as a Muslim and returned a Buddhist. e. He encountered people that had never been known to the Muslim world.