It was the American invention of the "cotton gin" that greatly aided the British textile industry, since this allowed for the seeds to be picked from cotton at a much faster rate.
Answer:
Prohibited Strikes
Explanation:
Each of the other options were the things the Labor activists were fighting for. Prohibition those strikes would have prevented those.
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The correct answers are: 1)C The other choices didn't really happen at the time: the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist (A), Spain separated from the Hapsburg empire later in 1700 with the extinction of the Habsburg Dinasty (B);D is wrong, because through the principle of "cuius regio, eius religio", each state would have his own recognized religion. 2)C The other choices are historically wrong; she was able to strenghten the royal power through her children: the Queen of France, the Queen of Naples and Sicily, the Duchess of Parma, two Holy Roman Emperors, and through her promotion for military, agriculture, commerce development. 3)B Catherine the Great wasn't at all in the shadows of her husband (A), nore did she isolate Russia from the West(C) or limit the royal power (D) through her wide range of reforms, which actually made Russia grow, in territories and culturally speaking, while laying the basis for Russia's Westernization. 4) C Although all choices are true in themselves, Peter the Great had begun to conquer the SOuth territories, in order to get near the Black Sea; Catherine was able to conquer it, thus the correct answer to the question is C. 5) B Austria and Prussia were already part of the Absburg Empire (much before the thirty years' war), as well as the Austrian Netherlands (D), the Baltic countries were never part of this empire (B), of this "Empire" much later. 6)C "Autocratic" and "rapid changes" are the keywords to define Peter the Great's approach of westernization. A and B are totally the oppposite of his MO, D is actually true, but his policies include many other ways and not only the imposition of the French language or customs in court.
The correct answer is:
Abraham Lincoln.
Explanation:
Abraham Lincoln's election is seen as one of the reasons why Southern states seceded and the Civil War broke out.<em> </em><em>Southern states wanted slavery because it was a big source for their economic activities</em><em>, </em><em>and Lincoln wanted to stop slavery from spreading</em><em>,</em> even though he didn't said he was going to eradicate slavery, between his election day and the inauguration day seven Southern states had already seceded because they felt they were no longer represented by the Union.
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States and the first Republican President (1861-1865).
