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The high proportion of women and children among the workers reflected in the table is best seen in the context of the
low wages of workers in industrial societies
The data in the table best provide historical context to understand which of the following developments in mid-nineteenth-century Great Britain
The emergence of social reform movements
The beginning of the industrial revolution in great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors
The location and large number of British coal deposits
The labor patterns shown in the table are most directly relevant in understanding which broader process in nineteenth-century Europe
The development of new class identities
For the period circa 1890 to 1910, which of the following countries experienced industrialization trends most similar to those for Japan as shown in the table
Germany
Which of the following is true of both Russia and Japan by 1914
Rapid, state-sponsored industrialization had occurred in both countries
in contrast to initial industrialization, the second industrial revolution in the las half of the nineteenth century was particularly associated with the mass production of which of the following
Electricity, steel, and chemicals
Which of the following best describes a conclusion about the relationship between steamships and world trade in the late nineteenth century that is supported by the data in the table
Europe’s dominance in the total number of steamships roughly correlates to its dominance in world trade
Which of the following best represents the purpose of Trotsky’s statement in the passage above?
To argue that Russia is ripe for a socialist revolution, despite being less industrialized than other European countries
The gender and age makeup of the workforce shown in image2 best illustrates which of the following phenomena in mid-nineteenth century European society
Within factories, skilled workers continued to be predominantly male, while woman and children continued to perform mostly unskilled factory work
Image1 best illustrates which of the following broad economic transformations in the period circa 1750
The transition from a human and animal-powered economy to a fossil-fuel economy
Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was
The industrial revolution
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working conditions depicted in image2 served as an inspiration for those arguing that
the negative social effects of capitalism should be alleviated by enacting factory regulations
Slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in
The united states and russia
Which of the following was a widespread social consequence of industrialization in the 1800s
The creation of a wage-earning working class concentrated in urban areas
Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750-1900
Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories
the emergence of the german industries referred to in the passage is most directly explained by which of the following processes in the nineteenth century
the development of new methods of production during the second industrial revolution
Great Britain’s development of the industry referred to in the first paragraph during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is best explained by the fact that British factories were the first to
Use steam powered machines for large scale economic production
Which of the following developments in the nineteenth century would most likely help explain the size and composition of the workforce at the Bayer plant as described in the second paragraph
The construction of railroads facilitated the migration of people to interior regions
Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women’s lives
Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family resposibilities
The industrialization of great Britain economy in the mid eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is most directly explained by which of the following
Britain had large reserves of coal
Which of the following best explains the general increase in the living standards of industrial workers between 1800 and 1914
the increased supply of inexpensive consumer goods
which of the following developments in the period 1878-1922 best explains the change in Japanese trade patterns shown in the graphs above
Japanese manufacturing output rose as a consequence of industrialization
the second industrial revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century was associated with the mass production of which of the following groups of products.
Electricity steel and chemicals