15 percent of the total population. (I learned this in World History Honors)
In 1914, many Americans believed that the Monroe Doctrine encouraged them to follow a policy of "protectionism", since this doctrine stated that any further efforts by European nations to colonize the Americas would lead to an American retaliation.
Answer: A. He made electricity less expensive and more readily available.
Explanation: All of the other choices seem way out of line. We all know that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, relating to electricity. Japan didn't have much to do with the Industrial Revolution. Eli Whitney was the inventor of the Cotton Gin (a machine for separating cotton fibers from seeds). And I'm pretty sure Samuel Slater was the one who brought designs for a textile mill from Great Britain to the United States. The only rational answer would be A.
Louverture's prominent role in the Haitian success over colonialism and slavery had earned him the admiration of friends and detractors alike. Toussaint Louverture began his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue; he was by then a free man and a Jacobin.
The London Underground is the first, and oldest
