Cheaper and better steel production led to all of the following except

A) the characterization of the second half of the nineteenth century as the “age of steel.”
B) the expansion of rail systems.
C) overproduction of steel and a severe depression.
D) strong growth of the building industry.
E) the evolution of shopping emporiums.


Ans: C

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