Unit 6

Britain's economic power between 1850 and 1873 is manifested in:

• Large-scale production of essential raw materials

• The expansion of its steel and metallurgical industry, boosted by spill-over effects (such as the railway)

• The world supremacy of its textile industry

• All of the above are correct

The reasons for the British economic decline from 1870 onwards are as follows:

• The slower dynamism of the business sector

• The slower development of high technology (chemistry, electricity, optics, automobile...)

• The British education system

• All of the above are correct

Among the reasons for France's late industrial development are the following:

• Excessive population growth

• Implementation of a liberal economic system

• The relative scarcity of natural resources

• Little state support for railway construction

 The decisive impetus for industrialisation in France came during:

• The French Revolution

• The Napoleonic Empire

• The Second Empire

• The Chevalier government

The free trade policy of the Second Empire took the form of:

• Non-specialisation in luxury fabrics (silk)

• The export of new industrial techniques

• The non-intervention of the State in the construction of the railways

• The signing of the Cobden-Chevalier treaty

The process of French industrial expansion came to a halt in 1870 as a result of:

• Sedan's defeat of Germany

• Agricultural crisis caused by the phylloxera plague

• The application of protectionism

• All of the above are correct

One of the preconditions for German economic progress from 1870 onwards was:

• The Franco-Prussian War

• The Vienna Congress

• German unification

• William II's rise to power

Germany's economic development was also boosted by high population growth, land reforms, improvements in transport and the creation of a customs union:

• True

• False

The name given to the German Customs Union was:

After the crisis of 1873, Germany underwent a major economic expansion, thanks in particular to:

• Colonisation in Africa

• The military conquest of territories

• The application of monopoly tactics (cartel, konzern) and unfair competition or dumping practices.

• All of the above are correct