What did the Meiji do in order to avoid taking foreign loans to finance reforms?
a. borrowed from the emperor
b. sold off colonies
c. raised tax revenues
d. sent Japanese people to work abroad
e. developed new steel industries
c
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Which of the following was true of the early twentieth-century women's suffrage movement?
A) It was led by men. B) It was most successful in the South. C) It was largely a movement of white middle-class women. D) It was at odds with the larger Progressive movement.
Why was the Newcomen Engine critical to the Industrial Revolution?
a) The Newcomen Engine was arguably the first genuine source of artificial power. b) The Newcomen Engine propelled the first railway engines. Consider This: Thomas Newcomen created his engine in part to help pump water out of mines. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions. c) The Newcomen Engine proved the importance of coal as an industrial fuel. Consider This: Thomas Newcomen created his engine in part to help pump water out of mines. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions. d) The Newcomen Engine demonstrated that it was possible to create vacuums. Consider This: Thomas Newcomen created his engine in part to help pump water out of mines. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions.
In the photograph Chief and his staff, the Indians' riding off into the distance symbolizes
A) the beginning of a new and hopeful era. B) the disappearance of their culture. C) the backwards nature of American industry. D) the ignorance of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. E) the continued ecological destruction of America.