Question 3 • 670201 World History S1 – MYERS, JOSHUA A
The excerpt is from The History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, by Edward Baines.A great number of streams . . . furnish water-power adequate to turn many hundred mills: they afford the element of water, indispensable for scouring, bleaching, printing, dyeing, and other processes of manufacture: and when collected in their larger channels, or employed to feed canals, they supply a superior inland navigation, so important for the transit of raw materials and merchandise.
Answer
A
Water supplied power and a means of transportation.
B
Water helped people build hundreds of mills.
C
Water helped people trade goods with nations overseas.
D
Water enabled people to create raw materials.
Explanation
The excerpt says streams provided water-power to turn mills and supplied water for manufacturing processes. It also describes rivers and canals as routes for transporting raw materials and merchandise. Together, these details show that water supplied power and a means of transportation, which matches choice A.
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