The second country to industrialize was __________
A) Britain
B) the United States
C) France
D) Belgium
Answer: D
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The exhaustion of the forests in the Great Lakes region resulted in which of the following?
A) importing wood from Germany B) a boom in the forestry industry in the Pacific Northwest C) the growth of Chicago D) stimulating lumbering and timber mills in the piney woods of Texas
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a. the Czech Republic, with the breakup of Czechoslovakia. b. Bosnia, during the breakup of Yugoslavia. c. Poland, with the overthrow of the Communist government by Solidarity. d. the Ukraine, with the atomic explosion at Chernobyl. e. East Germany, with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies
a. became greater than in all of Europe. b. had increased to the point of overpopulation. c. had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels. d. remained tiny compared with the number in England. e. was about one-third of the population.