To means to explain the meaning of, or to clarify the definition of.
a. ceremonial
b. execute
c. interpret
d. enforce

Before the civil war, the south’s economy was based on enslaved labor. large cities. immigrant workers. factories.

Before the invention of the loom in 1785, textile manufacturing was: a) regulated under the guild system. b) performed by children working in factories. c) produced in rural cottages under a putting-out system. d) conducted by british colonists overseas.

Choose the option that best completes this statement: the british and the continental system were blockades that prevented the united states from trading with without extreme risk to ships, goods, and sailors.