Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the
a. steamboat.
b. cotton gin.
c. railroad locomotive.
d. telegraph.
e. repeating revolver.
Question 2
The native peoples of Virginia (Powhatans) succumbed to the Europeans because they
a. died in large numbers from European diseases.
b. lacked the unity necessary to resist the well-organized whites.
c. were no longer a resource for food once the Virginians began growing their own crops.
d. were not a reliable labor source and could be disposed of without harming the colonial economy.
e. All of these
Cotton Production and Slave Population, 1800–1860
A passenger train crosses Stony Creek Bridge in the Rocky Mountains in 1878. Railroads were importan
Wheat and Cotton Prices and Consumer Price Indexes, 1865–1896
fter J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbor's Mouth (1842), engraved by R. ...
Thomas Anshutz, Steamboat on the Ohio.
Sterile cotton balls