History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- All of the following are reasons that created animosity between the colonizers and Natives EXCEPT for which?
- What percentage of colonists were Loyalists?
- In Britain, cotton imports from the U.S. was 4 million (1761). What did it raise too in 1815?
- Who created the mechanism called the Flying Shuttle (weaving machine)?
- Which of the following is not one of Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues?
- What country did the textile capital (Flanders) shift to when mechanization came about?
- Who created the Spinning Mule which combined features of the Spinning Jenny & Water Frame?
- What was the movement where wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers?
- Which battle would be called the "turning point of the war" for the Americans?
- Who created the Water Frame which was a spinning machine that used water as fuel?
- How many amendments were in the original Bill of Rights?
- Who created the Spinning Jenny that could produce 8 times the thread as one spinning wheel?
- What year did America purchase the Louisiana territory?
- What was the colonies' first response to the Coercive acts?
- What were some of the ways that Britain tried to help their debt from the French and Indian War?
- Who was the high-ranking noble that brought crop rotation to Great Britain?
- What country first introduced crop rotation in Europe?
- When did the French Revolution Start?
- What is the Revolution where power driven machines performed much of work done by human effort?
- All of the following are a factor of production needed for industrialization: