What allowed for more land to be cultivated?
a)the increase in peasants wanting to farm
b)the profusion of silk producers
c)an increase in rice production
d)waterwheels that raised water levels

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What is thomas? -a congressional blog -a congressional newspaper -a legislative records tracking system -a piece of legislation

What man proposed a solution to the issue of slavery in the territories suggesting the idea of popular sovereignty