The industrial revolution began in great britain partly because its many colonies
a. provided it with resources and captive markets
b. developed technologies that it could then import
c. contained numerous deep rivers and natural harbors
d. sided with it in wars against wealthier nations

“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