Which best illustrates the vocabulary term defray?

-Invention of the cotton gin

-Construction of various toll roads

-building of canals

Which sentence would be am effective thesis statement for a historical essay on the American industrial revolution?

The expansion of colonies in the Americas and the loss of millions of Native Americans to disease and mistreatment led European colonists to purchase A) furs from the French for warmth. B) corn from the Native Americans for food.

What quote does Obama begin his speech with?

Sundiata Keita was a a. great warrior king who seized Ghana. b. great griot in Mali. c. powerful soldier in Ghana. d. lion worshipped in Mali.

Which group of people originally had the right to participate in the roman government? all men and women aristocratic men aristocratic women working-class men

What factor contributed to the development of Japan's feudal system? A. The central government became weak and lost power. B. China's Han dynasty took control and formed the new structure. C. An increase in trade led to a need for a new system. D.

A powerful committee of the us senate charged with finding ways to raise federal revenues is the

John Winthrop referred to Massachusetts Colony as "a city on the hill" because (A) Boston's elevation made it clearly visible from the Atlantic Ocean (B) its views of religious freedom made it a safe haven for the oppressed (C) the colony's fair

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a national meeting at Seneca Falls in 1848. The primary purpose of this convention was to organize the A) abolition movement. B) temperance movement. C) women's suffrage movement.

He division of the Roman Empire between east and west was an attempt to solve what problem? A. The difficulty of running such a large territory B. The difficulty of trading sailing vessels traveling from east to west C.