Describe major events that helped to shape the evolution of the Second Industrial Revolution as industrial growth expanded beyond Britain.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. New inventions and innovations in steel production
2. Foreign competition challenging European farmers and driving jobs toward other sectors
3. The rise of the chemical industry
4. The invention of the internal combustion engine
5. The application of electricity to industrial production
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a. 3 million. b. 750,000. c. 50,000. d. 200,000.
Which statement best describes the Peasants' War of 1524-1525?
a. It was led by a radical ex-follower of Luther, Philip Melanchthon. b. It furthered the spread of Lutheranism throughout all of Europe. c. It was praised by Luther as it destroyed the great Catholic princes of Germany. d. It was strongly opposed by Luther who saw it as a social revolution from below against God's divine order. e. It had no connection with any of Luther's ideas and beliefs.
General Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan intended to use the Mason-Dixon line to divide the South into two parts and squeeze the life from it
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Nearly one million buffalo were slaughtered during the 1870s
Indicate whether the statement is true or false