The backwardness in American technology in the first two decades of the nineteenth century can be accounted for by all of the following EXCEPT
A) popular resistance toward technological innovation.
B) an inadequate system of higher education.
C) the absence of inventors who could transform ideas into practical technologies.
D) a lack of skilled machinists.
C
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a. the Soviet Union have full political control over its neighbors. b. the Soviet Union have economic control over its neighbors. c. the nations bordering the Soviet Union have governments friendly to the USSR. d. Soviet Union neighbors be organized into a military alliance. e. none of these choices.
Thomas Gainsborough's painting of Robert Andrews and his wife illustrates what traditional linkage of the Old Regime?
A. commerce and the middle class B. the nobility and servile labor C. land and nobility D. inherited privilege and an urban lifestyle
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false