By 1986, shops on Canal Street were closed and windows were boarded up and colorfully painted. Just a decade earlier,
But by the mid-1980s, one in eight workers was unemployed in Louisiana, the highest unemployment rate in the nation. The cruelest impact was on families, as fathers left their children and wives.
One of the biggest hits fell on the small bayou communities that had thrived in the 1970s. In Morgan City, one in four were jobless.
As oil prices dropped – as low as $10 a barrel – some pessimists said Louisiana’s heyday as a prosperous and carefree supplier of energy was over forever. Even if prices rebounded, they said, the Gulf was running out of recoverable oil. But technology proved them wrong, as new deepwater drilling techniques allowed energy companies to find oil and gas in ways that would not have been imaginable just 25 years ago.
<span>Rivers linked the Byzantines to the Russians. Trade occurred between the two cultures, so the Russians got supplies and ideas they would not have otherwise gotten.Trade brought Kiev into the Byzantine's influence. Also, the Byzantines had a strong hand in the Eastern Orthodox church, which converted Slavs via missionaries.</span>
Tigris and Euphrates river, in the midst of a vast desert, the peoples of Mesopotamia railed upon these rivers to provide drinking water, agricultural irrigation, and major transportation routes.
The creation of the "Flying Shuttle", the "Spinning Jenny", a water powered loom, and the steam engine.
Answer: D. the admittance of California to the union as a free state
Explanation:
The compromise of 1850 admitted California to the United States as a free state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.
