<u>The period in which the greatest economic or technological progress that occurred in the United States was between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century</u>. <u><em>During this period, the country went from being a simple agricultural economy to the first industrial power in the land</em></u>.
<u>It was in the second half of the nineteenth century when the first manufactures were created with imports of skilled foreign labor from England.</u>
<em><u>The answer is</u></em>: <u>A. Britain supplied a market for American manufactured goods</u>.
A Native American uses a rifle to hunt buffalo (B). Before the Columbian Exchange, no modern weapons reached the Americas. Natives hunted with the tools and techniques they had been using for hundreds of years.
The main reason why <span>Roosevelt felt the need to propose expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court is because he knew that this would help him retain his New Deal policies--many of which were being challenged in the court. </span>
Bryan was the last of the Great Political Orators in some ways. He could speak at great length on any topic, using powerful imagery, often of a religious nature, to audiences raised on such language and imagery.
Unfortunately, the telegraph already was encouraging economy of language, and the radio would make long speeches less useful than shorter ones which reached the point quickly. People in churches no longer spent hours listening to a single sermon, and those who followed the earsteps of Abraham Lincoln learned that eloquence was not a matter of length, but of substance.
The “Cross of Gold” speech which he thought would propel him to the Presidency would not work today.
The only orators today who speak interminably tend to be dictatorial in nature, in love with their own voice, and whose followers dote on every word, no matter how repetitious. Bryan was leagues above that, but someone who seeks his skill will learn why society has passed the skills of the long-sermoned preacher by.
