Author Question: The cotton gin was invented by A) Thomas Jefferson. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) Eli Whitney. ... (Read 51 times)

APUS57 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Sulla's legacy and importance was that he

A) became the first non-Roman consul.
B) became the first Roman general to use siege engines.
C) prevented civil war by arbitrating disputes between Marius and Gaius.
D) divided up the latifundia and restored the dispossessed farmers to their lands.
E) employed his personal army in political disputes, paving the way toward Roman civil war.

Question 2

The United States officially ended the importation of slaves in

A) 1807.
B) 1808.
C) 1810.
D) 1820.
E) 1815.

Question 3

The equites

A) were a wealthy and ambitious class of Romans who appeared in the late Republic.
B) were a new military order created by Caesar.
C) competed with the optimates for power in the Roman Senate.
D) were advisors to proconsuls in the provinces of the Republic.
E) were second class citizens of non-Roman origin.

Question 4

The cotton gin was invented by

A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Benjamin Franklin.
C) Eli Whitney.
D) William Clark.
E) None of these are correct.