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What explains why industrialization first occurred in Europe |
Europe possessed a unique capacity for technological innovation |
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What reflects an explanation for Europe |
unique features of European society and economy or history gave it a long term advantage and head start and industrializing |
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what argument serves to counter the notion that European culture is inherently more suited to industry and technology |
Until about 1750 core areas of Europe India and China enjoyed similar levels of economic development |
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What has been offered as an explanation for why Britain was the first European country to industrialize |
The Scientific Revolution and Great Britain fostered technological innovation |
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How did contact with other civilizations contribute to Europe's Industrial Revolution |
It enabled Europe to draw disproportionately on the world's resources. |
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In the eighteenth century, how did the Industrial Revolution |
It introduced the use of coal, oil, and natural gas as source of fuel. |
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How did Britain's geography affect its Industrial Revolution |
Coal and Iron ore deposits were abundant and close to each other. |
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What describe how the Industrial Revolution unfolded |
It began independently in only one place, Great Britain |
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In nineteenth-century Britain, women from laboring classes found jobs as |
Teachers and secretaries |
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How did the working class movement in Britain differ from the one in Russia |
It advocated a reformist program and a peaceful transition to socialism |
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What was a result of the Industrial Revolution |
An increase in production in mining, manufacturing, and services |
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What groups benefited the most from the Industrial |
The middle classes |
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In nineteenth-century Britain most member of the aristocracy derived their wealth from |
Landownership |
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What made global migration an appealing option for many Europeans during the nineteenth cenrury |
The demand for labor overseas |
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What describes a feature of Karl Marx's vision of the society he predicted would emerge after the collapse of capitalism |
A society without classes and conflict |
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What was value associated with middle - class culture in nineteenth-century Britain |
Hard work |
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What was a factor that pushed many Europeans to immigrate in the nineteenth century |
The decline in peasants farming in their homelands |
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What was a reason for the failure of socialism to take root and a united states |
The higher standard of living enjoyed my most american workers |
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What's played a greater role in industrial development in Russia than in the United States or Western Europe |
The state |
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Industrialization led to violent social revolution only in |
Russia |
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What accompanied industrialization wherever it occurred in the world |
Urbanization |
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Which group in the United States in the early 20th century pressed for reforms to correct the abuses of capitalists and industrialization |
The progressive |
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And what ways was the Industrial Revolution a global phenomenon by the end of the 19th century |
Even regions that failed to industrialize were impacted by industrialization |
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The economic development of Latin America was heavily dependent on |
Foreign capital |
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What describes the situation in latin America after independence |
Politically, the area was plagued by internal division, regional revolts, and international wars |
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What describe how the movement towards industrialization in the nineteenth century affected Latin America |
Latin America provided cheap labor for foreign-owned manufactured goods |
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What was most of the European capital invested in Latin America used to finance |
Railroads |
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What was the only country in Latin America to experience a nationwide revolution in the early 20th century |
Mexico |
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What is a following phrase that has been used to describe the form of economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and early twentieth |
Market-driven industrialization |
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What was a reason for U.S intervention in Central America in the early twentieth century |
To support American corporate interest in Cuba, Haiti, the Domincan Republic |
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Whose perspective is reflected in this response to the proposal for ten-hour workday in nineteenth-century Britain? "To produce the same quanity of work under a ten-hours bill will require an additional outlay of 3, 000 or 4,000 pounds |
A factory owner |
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In The Communist Manifesto what special term do Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels use to describe this group? "These laborers, who must sell themsleves piecemeal, are commodity, like every others article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market |
The Proletariat |
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What reflects the perspective of skilled artisans who lost their means of livelihood as a result of the Industrial Revolution? |
He's only a weaver that no one owns |
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A historian researching factors that contributed to the rise of industrial production in the 18th and 19th centuries would find which of the following types of sources most helpful |
Data on migration of rural population to urban areas |
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What best represents the purpose of Trotsky statement in the passage above |
To argue that Russia is ripe for a socialist revolution despite being less industrialized and other European countries |
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What was a widespread social consequence of industrialization in the 18 hundreds |
The creation of wage-earning working class is concentrated in urban areas |
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What best describes how nineteenth century European industrialization affected European woman lives |
Married woman found it increasingly difficult to balance with work and family responsibilities |
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In contrast to initial industrialization the Second Industrial Revolution and the last half of the 19th century was particularly associated with the mass production of which of the following |
Electricity steel and chemicals |
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Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the 19th and early 20th century was |
The Industrial Revolution |
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The first industrial revolution in Great Britain was initially based on which of the following |
Textiles |
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The phenomenon of hyper urbanization and 20th century Latin America was caused primarily by |
Industrialization and rural Exodus |
