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-top tamarin eating a grasshopper
Prices for Cotton and for Slaves, 1802–1860
Cotton and Slaves in the South, 1860
Chinese workers on a railway in the far West. “Without them,” Leland Stanford, president of the Cent
fter J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbor's Mouth (1842), engraved by R. ...
Thomas Anshutz, Steamboat on the Ohio.