The correct answer is <span>find a water route to the East
They believed that since the world is round that they could reach the east, places like China and India, if they went westwards. They didn't know that the Americas existed and many believed that the earth was either much smaller or that only a huge body of water was found in that area. This is why they believed that they had reached India when they reached the Americas.</span>
In the era after Wold War I and before the Great Depression, American towns grew rapidly mostly because of the Second Industrial Revolution, which gave way to a rise of factories both in and around major cities in the US.
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Abraham Gesner, geologist, author, chemist, inventor .
Explanation:
Gesner invented kerosene oil and, because of his patents for distilling bituminous material, was a founder of the modern Petroleum Industry.
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Christopher Columbus
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He discovered some Islands in the Caribbean and he discovered South America.
