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 Pygmy Goose - female in Thailand
A Simple Neural Model of Instrumental Conditioning
Cotton Production and Slave Population, 1800–1860
Cotton and Slaves in the South, 1860
A mound of buffalo skulls. In 1870 an estimated 30 million buffalo roamed the plains; by 1900 there
Wheat and Cotton Prices and Consumer Price Indexes, 1865–1896