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children commonly worked from a very young age in nineteenth-century industrial societies. Most child laborers in britain worked in:
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mines
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the industrial revolution caused changed in which of the following areas?
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the physical landscape of europe, wealth and poverty, the nature of work, the private lives of people
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one of the most important preconditions of industrialization that was best established in great britian was:
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a commercialized system of agriculture
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one consequence of the industrialization of europe was its detrimental effect on the environment. this was first noted in its effects on air quality as typified by Coketown, fictional city in the novel Hard Times by:
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charles dickens
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in the nineteenth century railways were constructed almost entirely without the aid of machinery
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true
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the industrial revolution intensified human labor much more often than it eased it
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true
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as a result of the industrial revolution, people of nineteenth-century europe increasingly viewed one another through the lens of:
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class
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by the late nineteenth century, the core industrial countries of europe included:
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germany, itlay, switzerland
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the mining industry in england rapidly grew with industrialization due to the increased demand for:
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coal
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most prostitutes in the nineteenth-century western europe's cities were women who were trying to mange during a period of unemployment, rather than professional sex workers
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true
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technological advances in europe, matched by advances in medicine and agriculture, brought about a period of densely growth in the nineteenth century known as:
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second industrial revolution
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the abuses of the congo free states publicized by european writers such as joseph conrad in his book:
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the heart of darkness
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the opium wars began when:
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the chinese banned opium imports
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sigmund freud argued that mental disorders are causes by:
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conflict between natural drives and cultural restraints
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the third republic in france was shaken in 1894 by the "dreyfus affair" which witnessed the rise of _______ in french society
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antisemitism
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in the 1896, emperor menelik ii of ethiopia defeated an invading army from:
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italy
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european women in the late nineteenth century, having attained the right to control their own property, viewed ______ as the symbol of full legal personhood.
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enfranchisement
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the dominant trend in business during the second industrial revolution was decreasing cooperation between governments and industries. true or false
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false
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the united states became an imperial power following its victory in the "splendid little war" against:
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spain
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military technology innovations like the machine gun helped european nations deter armed rebellions by native peoples, as seen in its use by the british army in africa. true or false
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true
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during the Russian Revolution, what or who were the soviets?
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local councils or workers and soldiers throughout Russia
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what was the public motive for britain's declaration of war in 1914?
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the German invasion of neutral belgium
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the russian people revolted against their tsar in 1917 because of...
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living conditions that had grossly deteriorated. the horrendous loss of life in World War I. lack of food in most areas of the country . complete loss of faith in the government
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one of the significant changes in British society after the war was the availability of birth control, with the first-birth control clinic open in london 1912 by...
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Maria Stopes
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World War I saw the first use of many new weapons. one of these, poison gas, was particularly devastating due to its:
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physical and psychology effects
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to what does total war refer?
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the intense commitment of a nation's whole human and material resources to fighting
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although the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary had many ethnic problems within many of its provinces, the most volatile of all was the province of:
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bosnia
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The german naval blockade of great Britain destroyed more tonnage on the open seas, but the british blockade of germany was far more devastating because it put increased demands on the german national economy.
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true
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with so much of the male population of european countries in uniform during the war, women increasingly filled industrial postions from which they had to heretofore been excluded. In Britain, these women were collectively dubbed
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Munitionettes
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The aims of the Bolsheviks included an end to war, improvement of working and living conditions for the working class, and a redistribution of aristocratic land to the peasants
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true.
