Unit 5 Learning Check 5.3-5.8

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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? Options: The spread of new industrial technologies such as the internal combustion engine from the United States, The development of new methods of production during the second industrial revolution, The greater diversity of manufactured goods produced by industrial factories, The growing importance of using coal as fuel in industrial production

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The development of new methods of production during the second industrial revolution

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Great Britain’s development of the industry during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is best explained by the fact that British factories were the first to

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use steam-powered machines for large-scale economic production

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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?
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The construction of railroads facilitated the migration of people to interior regions.
The invention of steamships facilitated the migration of colonial subjects to imperial metropoles.
The invention of the telegraph made it easier for companies to recruit educated workers from across the world.
The discovery of electricity made rural communities more attractive places to live for wealthy urbanites.

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The construction of railroads facilitated the migration of people to interior regions.

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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 decreased because Japanese leaders restricted commercial ties., Export of manufactured goods declined because United States tariffs on Japanese goods increased., Japanese manufacturing output rose as a consequence of industrialization., Japanese imports of raw materials increased as a consequence of extensive immigration to Japan.

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Japanese manufacturing output rose as a consequence of industrialization.

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Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women’s lives?
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By the end of the century, new social welfare legislation made it possible for most women to earn university degrees.
Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilities.
By the end of the century, women gained the right to vote in most European countries.
Women came to dominate the agricultural workforce as men moved to cities to take industrial jobs.

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Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilities.

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Adoption of which of the following power sources has contributed the most to increasing the energy available to humans? Draft animals, Wind power, Fossil fuels, Nuclear power

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Fossil fuels

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The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors? The amount and location of British petroleum reserves, The location and large number of British coal deposits, The aggressive promotion of industrialization by George III, The spread of cotton cultivation in southern England

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The location and large number of British coal deposits

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Marx’s statement in the passage above is best understood in the context of which of the following responses to the development and spread of global capitalism in the nineteenth century? A movement to gain longer work hours for workers, A movement to articulate an alternative vision of society, A movement to convince workers that global capitalism would ultimately benefit them, A movement to celebrate the productive capacity of global capitalism

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A movement to articulate an alternative vision of society

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Which of the following was a widespread social consequence of industrialization in the 1800s? A decline in the social status of women, An increase in the power and prestige of the landowning aristocracy, The general leveling of social hierarchies based on wealth, The creation of a wage-earning working class concentrated in urban areas

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The creation of a wage-earning working class concentrated in urban areas

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Which of the following best supports the argument that the last three decades of the nineteenth century were a turning point in world history? Significant increases in demand for fossil fuels for industrial uses, Transition from use of coal and steam to nuclear power, Worldwide transition from polytheism to monotheism, Significant increases in agricultural productivity due to Green Revolution technology

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Significant increases in demand for fossil fuels for industrial uses