The Second Industrial Revolution was characterized by ________
A. the expansion of railway systems in Europe
B. the development of new industries on the Continent
C. the spread of industries similar to those in Great Britain
D. massive unemployment
Answer: B
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Economic developments in the 1970s forced millions of Americans to
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The Requerimiento
A) established a code of laws to protect indigenous peoples. B) required Spanish colonists to convert, protect, and educate their indigenous serfs. C) obligated indigenous peoples, on pain of war, to acknowledge Spain's sovereignty and the supremacy of the church. D) proclaimed that indigenous peoples were slaves by nature.