Question

What did Francis Cabot Lowell and Samuel Slater have in common? (5 points)

Their inventions allowed the U.S. economy to decrease dependence on slaves.
Their inventions made Transatlantic communication more efficient.
They imported technological advances from Great Britain.
They grew wealthy selling their technologies to European buyers.

Answer 1

@mathstudent55 @myininaya @Preetha @whpalmer4 @Vonte12 @dumbcow @linda3 @thomaster

Answer 2

I had to solve this on my own... I'm new to this site and I must complain about it. Thanks for nothing! I'll be a generous person and for all the people who need this question answered the asnwer is: C. They Importand technological advances from Great Britian.

Answer 3

@linda3 you've been typing for a while...

Answer 4

I'm sorry that you were not able to get your answer in time. I know that I was away from my computer in the last 5 hours and I'm not quite sure when you had posted your question. But as being part of the OpenStudy community we strive to help other users with their schoolwork. Note: we do not just give out answers but rather lead them to the right answers with explanation and understanding on how they got the right answer, again I am very sorry for the misunderstandings and any problems you have had.

But for next time to prevent this problem you can post the link of your question in the chat boxes to let other people know you've posted a question and need help. This lets other users be aware that you could use some help. And next time- mention me in your question and I'd be more than happy to help you! I wish you the best of luck and Welcome to OpenStudy! :)

Answer 5

Thanks for your concern! :) Yeah, I know but I wasn't getting any sort of response, from anyone. The chatboxes are great but they definitely do not help with finding an answer. The students who are live on the chatbox usually just continue with their questionable conversations and ignore the virtual purposes of OpenStudy. Thank you again Mrs. @linda3

Answer 6

You are most very welcome I will try my best to have this not happen again.

Answer 7

Wow, you really are snippy aren't you! @medalandfan_forhelp!

Answer 8

That's rude. I was just dissapointed by the defeated purpose. The problem is fixed, please do not cause more. Thank you :) @dumbsearch2

Answer 9

I thought you were rather pushy and rude- though I understand your point although you could have conveyed it nicer.

Anyways, I think the site works quite well, just they're a lot of studygroups and questioners, and I wasn't there at the moment. I apologize, and I'll try to be of help next time. I'd be obliged to help you next time ! Not everyone is here at the same time...

Other topics, like the math section are clearly sucesses.

Answer 10

Cause more? I just noted on how I percieved your behavior.

Answer 11

You do understand that there is no paid staff of researchers eagerly waiting to answer your questions, right? How many questions have you answered for others? What do you think would make more people interested in hanging out on the history section and answering questions?

Perhaps some intelligent web-surfing would help you get the answers to such questions. The abstract for this case study gives some good clues, for example: http://hbr.org/product/samuel-slater-francis-cabot-lowell-and-the-beginni/an/792008-PDF-ENG

Personally, I don't think history is as well-suited to the OpenStudy philosophy of guiding users to answers, rather than giving them. With a math or physics question, you can lead the questioner in the direction of the proper equations, diagrams, etc. without actually doing the problem for them. Not sure how I guide you to the right answer here without just telling you "this is it" or "those other three aren't it" or suggesting that you should reread the relevant portion of your textbook.

Answer 12

Well said @whpalmer4

Answer 13

Furthermore, @medalandfan_forhelp! you only gave your question 6 minutes... Seriously...

Sometimes they'res a problem: there can be more people asking for help than answering, but that's why you should do your homework at times... and try to improve instead of complain by helping others !

Answer 14

Well... as me loving history and history is about all I do on OpenStudy I explain why the answer is that answer. Just like History- there's reasons for everything and why things happened- I make sure the user that I'm helping understands why the answer is that answer.

Answer 15

you guys should just drop it already and move on

Answer 16

It's also the case that it's somewhat easier to be productive answering questions on the math section: there are a whole lot of different questions that can be answered with the same small bit of knowledge. But knowing some small bit of knowledge about one part of history really doesn't help you answer questions about anything else, especially when so many of the questions posed here are designed to just get the student to regurgitate some random factoid (which is easy to grade in mechanical fashion), rather than actually assess any understanding of history (which is not!)

Answer 17

That's a good, logical solution ! :) @linda3 :)

Answer 18

@medalandfan_forhelp! you did only allow 6 minutes for us to answer your question before you complained... Usually it takes about 30 minutes for an OpenStudy user to reply to a question if there aren't a lot of people online. So maybe it be best if you waited a bit until someone looks at your question. And in the mean time while you wait you can try and see if you can help others with their school work! :)

and @dumbsearch2 thank you!

Answer 19

Okay, I am sorry for that. I understand how others could have perceived my comment the wrong way also. Please remember I am knew to this and there's only so much I know about how quick I can get responses. My expectations were just larger and I thought I found 'Help Heaven' when I heard about the purpose of OpenStudy. I thought there were people specialized to help with my questions. I really didn't want to start a ruckus about my impatience, you could say, but of course being completely new, you can sometimes unrealistic expectations. Thanks, now I know how to prepare my expectations to further enhance my OpenStudy experience. @linda3 @dumbsearch2 @whpalmer4 but like I said before, it's rude that a whole army of 'helpful people' would attack me. @linda3 but your great! thanks for evvverrryyytthhhiiinnnggg....!

Answer 20

My friends told me this website was the best thing ever! Great answers! Quick answers for everything!

Answer 21

ahaha no problem @medalandfan_forhelp!

Answer 22

Thanks! :) Sorry if I appeared harsh.

Answer 23

@medalandfan_forhelp! Though... http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/47385387.jpg

Answer 24

Not sure anyone is attacking you; some of us are trying to adjust your expectations to be more reasonable. Your friends were perhaps asking questions in different parts of the site where there is more action. Activity levels also fluctuate throughout the day. Ironically, you may be better off asking questions at other times of the day when the site is more responsive; I saw a dozen or so questions go by that I could have answered, if only the site would have given me the chance instead of displaying a blank screen whenever I tried to load one.

I'll make the same comment about not getting answers in 5 minutes being a disaster that I did to my son who is frantically trying to finish his science fair project — if you aren't doing the work right before the deadline, life's inevitable little hitches, accidents, delays, etc. don't cause nearly as much trouble!

Answer 25

RIGHT @whpalmer4

Answer 26

You are very eloquent @whpalmer4 :) Yet very concise.

Answer 27

I will freely admit that that last admonishment may be rightly seen as "do as I say, not as I do" :-)

Answer 28

Not at all!