If you were a middle-class citizen in early nineteenth-century America, where would you rather have lived, in the North or the South? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: the North had a thriving middle class--economic opportunities were greater there; their economic skills were needed; their numbers made them politically potent. In the South, the planter aristocracy dominated the political, economic, and social life; there were no cities to support an urban middle class, etc.
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China's agriculture boomed in the seventeenth century with the introduction of
a. iron farming tools. b. three field rotation. c. a new strain of rice. d. African slaves for fieldwork. e. crops like sweet potatoes from America.
Outline the program and practice of Zionism and why it engendered opposition
What will be an ideal response?
In Africa, the European presence grew most rapidly in the
a. east. b. west. c. south. d. islands off Africa's east coast. e. north.
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. E. the steady deterioration of working-class standards of living.