Answer:
In the 1800's. If you wanna be really specific, it's the late 1790's.
It was true. George Westinghouse inventions did help make drilling for oil safer and less expensive.
The american southwest was settled by european colonists from FRANCE
Answer:
You wish to free him from foreign competition"
Explanation:
We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us.
