All of the following describe rural Texas EXCEPT: a. The average farm size was about 225 acres. b. New innovations in farming equipment helped the industry grow. c. The major crop in Texas was cotton. d. Farmers used boll weevils to help keep crops from over producing. Please select the best answer from the choices provided

b. new innovations in farming equipment helped the industry growExplanation:

this is not about rural texas, iots about the farming industry and making money. all of the others talk about farmers or people on farms, not about a framing business.

D

Explanation:

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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