The options of the question are a) steel. B) industry’s need for a market. c) the Erie canal system. d) the railways.
The correct answer is C) the Erie canal system.
<em>In a summary of the passage, the central trend is the Erie canal system.
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The passage contains an introduction that serves as a context when it refers to “the Steel and Steam power as a good market to mechanical industry.” And then, it leads to the central idea when it diversified to allow more efficient means of transportation, like the Canals for navigation. The passage refers to the Ships of Steam that navigated through the Hudson in 1807, using the Erie canal, part of the system of Canals in the state of New York.
John Hancock (president of the Continental Congress), Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis
"Arsenal of democracy" term President Roosevelt use to describe the combined federal and civilian production of liberty ships, planes, weapons, and supplies needed by the military to fight World War II.
<u>Option: </u>A
<u>Explanation:</u>
An expression was populated by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt to characterize the United States as it sought public support during the Second World War to send military assistance to countries struggling against the Axis powers like Germany, Italy and Japan, and others is known as Arsenal of Democracy.
The FDR address was an appeal to arm and assist the Allies in Europe and, to a lesser degree, to arm and sustain the Republic of China in the fight against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan at large.
