I'd say the combustion engine, even though it was toyed with in the mid-west during the cowboy era, it wasn't until after the Civil War in which it was a fully effective gasoline powered engine.
Americans believed the Monroe doctrine encouraged them to follow a policy of moral diplomacy.
What were the main products of the Bengal region of India sugar, and opium
<span>Sherman's "March to the Sea" followed his successful Atlanta Campaign of May to September 1864. He and the Union Army's commander, Lt. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, believed that the Civil War would come to an end only
if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity
for warfare were decisively broken.</span>
This statement is false.
The Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea are not connected, thus the Persian Gulf can not feed out to the Mediterranean Sea. In between them are the Gulf of Oman, than the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, and finally the Suez Canal, which is the connection between the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the waters of the Red Sea through the Gulf of Suez.