The novelist William Dean Howells remarked, “It is in these things of iron and steel that the national genius most freely speaks.” Which of the following is an example of the “things” to which Howells refers?
a) Corliss engine
b) garment industry
c) labor unions
d) iron law of wages
a) Corliss engine
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A) Muslims who sought western changes to modernize the Ottoman Empire B) an aggressive puritanical movement founded in Arabia to cleanse Sunni Islam of Sufism C) the conscripted peasant army D) the elite Ottoman mounted troops E) Muslims who believed in toleration among all religious groups
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 _________________.
A. offered fellowships and loans to college students B. provided federal research grants to major universities C. created the ROTC program D. desegregated the Naval Academy
Among the innovations that made China the world leader in agricultural productivity until the eighteenth century CE was the fengche, a ____________.
a. Specially bred form of draft animal. b. Hand-cranked winnowing machine that separated the chaff from the grain. c. Foot-powered chain pump for irrigation. d. System of crop rotation that ensured that the topsoil would be preserved.
The Risorgimento may be best related to
a. the Italian Renaissance. b. economic liberalism and economic revival of northern Italy. c. the Italian Zollverein. d. revival of papal authority. e. Italian nationalism.