Volcanoes change the earth by
a. slow surface heating
b violent, fast eruptions
c. rapid oxygen depletion
d. keeping mountains from growing

What was true about sharecropping? a. landowner provided free tools and seeds. b. workers could leave the land if they failed to make money. c. landowners often took advantage of workers. d. workers received ownership of the land they farmed after a set number of years.

Explain how social darwinism impact imperialism.

“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