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Historians use the concept of a "Second"
Industrial Revolution to refer to
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the rise of heavy industries (coal, iron, and steel), railroads, and
electricit-v in Great Britain after textiles and steam power in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
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the rise of heavy industries (coal, iron, and steel), railroads, and
electricit-v in Great Britain after textiles and steam power in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
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antibiotics.
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Which one of the following pairs of countries
came to rival Britain
as industrial powers?
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Germany and the United
States
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Of the following, the
country that was slowest to industrialize was
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Russia.
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The economic boom of 1871-1872 was
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followed in 1873 by a severe economic crisis, inaugurating decades of
unpredictable and socially destabilizing
economic fluctuations.
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As industrialization advanced, the two problems
that began to plague entrepreneurs most were skyrocketing start-up costs and
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A) the failure of consumption to keep pace with production.
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In the late nineteenth century,
industrialization tended to be capital intensive, which means that
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large amounts of money were needed to buy expensive machinery and
equipment
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Arguably the single most
important step taken to raise investor confidence was
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the creation
of the limited liability corporation.
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In the late 1870s, France
and Germany
abandoned what longstanding liberal policy?
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free trade
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Women's massive entry into the service sector in
the late nineteenth century accelerated
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the division of
occupations into male and female categories.
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The principal stimulus for a consumer culture
in the late nineteenth century was
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A) department stores and mail-order catalogs.
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Nation builders often connected national identity and pride with
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industrial
prosperity and imperial expansion.
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The French followed up their colonization of Algeria by
occupying
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Tunisia.
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Although cruelty abounded under
imperialist rule, the European ruler known for inflicting the worst atrocities
was
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A) Belgian king Leopold 11.
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In the early 1880s, a scramble among European
countries for colonies in Africa was touched
off by
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Leopold of
Belgium claiming a huge territory in the Congo region.
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