Answer:
<em>There </em><em>are</em><em> two types of steamboats: an East Coast type and a Western Rivers type.</em><em> </em><em>The</em><em> </em><em>first</em><em> </em><em>steamboat</em><em> </em><em>was</em><em> </em><em>invented</em><em> </em><em>by</em><em> </em><em>an</em><em> </em><em>American</em><em> </em><em>inventor</em><em> </em><em>named</em><em> </em><em>Robert</em><em> </em><em>Fulton</em><em> </em><em>in</em><em> </em><em>180</em><em>7</em><em>.</em><em> </em><em>I</em><em>t</em><em> </em><em>was</em><em> </em><em>called</em><em> </em><em>the</em><em> </em><em>Clermont</em><em>.</em>
In Puerto Rico it was useful, in Cuba not so much. Cubans perceived the outcome as occupation and didn't want to have United States occupation in their country. Puerto-Ricans had a form of a civilian government with independence and Puerto-rican citizenship but the country belonged to US.
Maybe american indians did?
Answer: a. there was a strong tendency to come from a business-elite background (76%)
Explanation:
Beth Mintz and Peter Freitag analyzed the backgrounds of every cabinet member serving between 1897 and 1973. Not only did they found that 66% of them could be considered as part of the upper class before getting their cabinet jobs, but also that more than 76% of them were connected with prominent corporations, and 90% of them came either from upper class or were linked with those corporations.