Which European empire's threatening expeditions and settlements in the South and West prompted Spain to establish a few settlement in Texas beginning in 1716?
a. France
b. Great Britain
c. Portugal
d. Holland
e. none of these
Question 2
As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
a. fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
b. short-staple cotton lost popularity.
c. slavery was reinvigorated in the South.
d. Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery.
e. the African slave trade was legalized.
The age structure of human populations in West Africa and Western Europe, as of 2000.
Gecarcinus quadratus, a land crab from Central and South America
Male South American Knob-billed Duck (S. m. sylvicola)
New England children like David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason (painted by an unknown artist around 1670